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Dia del Nino leads today's complete edition for Togo.
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Every kid gets a present and the day off from school if the school is feeling generous. The real tradition is parents buying way too much cake and the kids running on a sugar high until midnight. Bolivian children are spoiled on this day and that is exactly how it should be.
The egun gun masks emerge from compound walls covered in layers of cascading cloth from head to toe. These are ancestral spirits returned to visit the living, and when they appear, everyone kneels. The masks dance with impossible speed for something that cannot see through all that fabric, and children learn early that you do not touch an egun gun mask or block its path. To do so would invite a curse that no amount of palm oil or gin can fix.
