00:00Tala Sur celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025 and continues broadening its
00:05coverage to fully showcase our people's culture of richness. For this, since 2024,
00:10carnival celebrations in Latin America and the Caribbean have a special place in
00:14our programming. From Brazil, our correspondent Andrea Vieira tells us
00:18about his experience in covering these significant celebrations in the South
00:22American giant. I want to thank and welcome our dear correspondent
00:27Andrea Vieira, who is ready to tell us what is going to happen starting tomorrow.
00:31But let's start from the beginning to tell us first where he is. Dear Andrea,
00:35thank you for being with us. Good evening. Tell us where you are. Why Bahia and not
00:39Rio de Janeiro in this instance? What makes Bahia different?
00:49How are you, Sarai? Greetings to you and our audience. Here we are in the Northeast
00:55region, which is where I am from, one of the most joyful and colorful regions of this country,
01:01with the colors and carnivals. Here we are to show a little bit of another type of carnival,
01:06because the most famous carnival in Brazil is the Carnival of Rio de Janeiro,
01:11with the floats and samba schools, and here we are to showcase the black carnivals,
01:16a truly beautiful one. Among all the coverage I have done for Telezor, together with cameraman Sebastián Soto,
01:27the carnival was undoubtedly one of the most exciting personally and professionally.
01:32Firstly, because as a good Brazilian, my flesh is made of carnival and my heart too,
01:38as a song by . Second, because for the first time it was my turn to host a TV program,
01:45Carnival Time. Always accompanied by a singer and journalist Mariela Santiago, we took a trip to the
01:51most popular party in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our home base for the first season was
01:57Salvador de Bahia in 2024, the blackest city outside of Africa.
02:08Africa is our cradle, it is our mother, our comfort, where we reconnect, we communicate through the drums.
02:14The drums have an ancestral force, everything is super interconnected and we live it all year long.
02:19In 2025, we landed in Rio de Janeiro for the most famous carnival on earth. A total of 8 million
02:32people took part in the festivities in the city, according to the mayor's office. In addition to
02:37the Sambra Dome Carnival, there is the street carnival. I love the first one, but I participated as a
02:43musician in the second one. And this year, for the first time, I managed to parade with my group
02:48Tuesday of Carnival between one report and the next. For those of us who were born in this land,
02:54this period changes the whole routine of the cities that celebrate this party, and it changes our lives.
03:00Carnival is of European influence, but why is it so important in Brazil?
03:11The key to understand the great popularity of the Brazilian Carnival, the strength it has in the
03:17cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Salvador, São Luís do Maranhão is because it is a carnival that
03:25funds conjunction of collecting senses of life for those who were excluded by an extremely violent
03:33process that marks the formation of the Brazilian nation state.
03:38Not everything that makes up the carnival is a party. There is still a lack of public resources so
03:51that the groups, mainly the less publicized ones, can maintain the tradition beyond the five days of
03:56carnival. In addition, male chauvinism is still in force and we, the men, continue to dominate the
04:02management of the festival. But there is a struggle of many women that is changing this reality.
04:16There are many challenges. These spaces have grown a lot and mainly with the pioneers
04:20we have in the world of samba, with singers and composers such as Clara Nunez,
04:24who made this connection. But even with the juries of the samba schools in the carnival.
04:37The way women's bodies are treated, how women are objectified in the carnival.
04:45In Rio de Janeiro, we also experienced recording songs with different artists,
04:50Tsongoro Kosongo and his psychotropicality.
05:01The African heritage represented by Orumila.
05:07The mixture of styles of orchestra de beco
05:13and the power of Thais Lara's voice.
05:15Every year, our heart beats strongly for this tradition. Nothing and no one is more colorful than
05:23carnival.
05:27André Vieira y Sebastião Soto, Telesur, Brasileiro.
05:29André Vieira y Sebastião Soto, Telesur, Brasileiro.
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