Every Carnival in Tenosique, Tabasco, wooden men, priestesses and jaguars ritually overcome an evil god in the dance of El Pochó.

Passengers increasingly request Carnival Cruise Line reinstate a popular Caribbean destination removed from its itineraries.

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Uruguay's emblematic carnival celebration, known as the Desfile de Llamadas, kicked off its first day on Friday with the beating of drums and traditional dances. From the sidewalks and balconies of ...

With Carnival approaching, Mazatlán hopes to reactivate its tourism industry, which has suffered during Sinaloa's security ...

According to noted ornithologists, there is only one species of duck that resembles the rubber variety parodied on a Carnival ...

Carnaval Miami is marking 50 years of celebrating the Magic City, and they are inviting the public to bring their fun<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

As Cuba stands to become even more isolated, many Cubans continue to leave and those who stay remain cut off from family in the United States. Carlos Varela, a singer known as “The Poet of Havana,” ...

A small crowd gathered for the pro-government Torchlight March in Santiago de Cuba, held to commemorate the birth anniversary of José Martí. The procession, moving through the dimly lit streets of the ...

In short, carnival is a Catholic celebration that takes place in the weeks leading up to the Easter holidays. Nowadays the holiday might have lost some of the more traditional religious elements, but ...

In this, she’s helped by Martín De Lima’s score ... is the way it reworks well-worn tales into a joyous and extravagant carnival of long lost lovers and absent fathers, doting mothers ...

Bilbao. Image © Tommie Hansen via Wikipedia under CC BY 3.0 The historical Roman town has been busy at work and new exciting buildings, squares, and public parks ...