Peru celebrates culture with bullfighting festival

All images by Karel Navarro / AP

A member of folkloric music group 'Los Brillantes de Matacancha' from Huanuco, Peru, performs during a show inside a bullring at the Yawar Toro center during a festival on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Nov. 18.

Bullfighter Brayan Quinonez performs during a festival in Peru, Nov. 18.

Karel Navarro, AP — A festival was organized by Peru’s town of Huanuco to celebrate native customs in culinary art, dance and music.  People from Peru's Andean highlands, who have emigrated for decades to the capital in search for opportunities, organize fairs on various dates on the outskirts of Lima to honor various patron saints, celebrate anniversaries or to celebrate local customs.

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People watch a parade outside a bullfighting ring at the Yawar Toro center during a festival on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Nov. 18.

People watch a show inside a bullring at the Yawar Toro center during a festival on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Nov. 18.

Alejandro Evangelista, a musician from the Pomapata Musical Center, pours himself a beer after performing in a bullring at the Yawar Toro center during a festival on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Nov. 18.

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The GOP/RNC "Clown Show" can take a field trip to Peru to do some bullfighting. They will fit right in, and their ignorance is always entertaining. Even the bulls will be very angry to be lied to, and will be chasing down many a "Tea Begger Clown." Now that would be entertaining American!

    Reply#1 - Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:02 AM EST

    Yes America! The "Crazy Conservative Clown Show" must get into the bullfighting ring quickly. They should all wear red outfits, and their faces should be painted. On the PA System the "Clown Music" will be playing, and the GOP/RNC "Clowns" will drive around in their "Clown Car."

      Reply#2 - Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:46 AM EST

      If a GOP/Tea Begger gets gord in the butt? Does that mean that they are full of crap?

        Reply#3 - Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:48 AM EST
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