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Burning of the Devil (Quema del Diablo), Guatemala City, Guatemala

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    01001 Guatemala
    Guatemala
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Every December 7th, to initiate the holiday season, Guatemalans of (almost) every stripe drag old household items, waste paper, clothing and every other combustible thing out in front of their houses and set it all afire to represent burning the devil and to purify their households for the holy weeks ahead. A tour of the residential streets provides an alarming spectacle, Guatemala City in flames, its blue skies gone black with smoke. Environmentalist groups do protest the gratuitous pollution. (Note: those with respiratory ailments should flee.)

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It's not just about the fire

 by  A Yahoo! Contributor  on  2007-12-21

I was born in Guatemala and lived in a 60-house closed community. The "Quema del Diablo" was a huge, 18 foot-tall mountain of hay, with a piata of

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Great

 by  A Yahoo! Contributor  on  2007-05-14

This was a very nice event to visit. i found that that the locals were very friendly and it was very interesting to watch the burning of the de...

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