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Rio de Janiero's Carnival is back for the first time since the pandemic. Brazil's top samba schools took part in the dazzling parade at the Sambadrome. View on euronews
Rio's samba school Unidos da Tijuca dedicates this year's carnival entry to the Amazonian tribe Satere-Mawe, to illustrate the "resistance of the indigenous people who have historically been massacred" in Brazil.
After two bleak years of lock-downs and loss, Rio de Janeiro will hold its famed carnival this weekend for the first time since Covid-19 hit Brazil, promising a giant, glittering spectacle of pandemic catharsis. FRANCE 24's Jan Onasko tells us more.
The world-famous Brazilian festival is not happening this year amid the pandemic, but some still dressed up in their exuberant, hand-made costumes for a symbolic celebration.
Forty dancers from the Portela samba school dress up in traditional French-style sailor suits and pompom berets designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier for the second and final night of the Rio carnival.