Carnival, Festivals & Fairs in Latin America & Caribbean

Rio Carnival is a wild 4 day celebration, 40 days before Easter. It officially starts on Saturday and finishes on Fat Tuesday with the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday after which one is supposed to abstain from all bodily pleasures. Carnival with all its excesses, celebrated as a profane event, can thus be considered an act of farewell to the pleasures of the flesh. It usually happens in February, the hottest month in the Southern Hemisphere, when the Rio summer is at its peak.

Carabobo, Venezuela 25 April to 5 of May 2008 The festival is a suitable place from where launchings of new products related with the self-driven sector can be made, of massive consumption or of other areas, as well as advertising campaigns to reinforce the image of products, goods or services or positioning of a mark determined in the Venezuelan market