Portal:Latin America/Did you know/Week 33, 2006

...that Teacher's Day on September 11 in Argentina commemorates the death of one of its Presidents, Domingo_Faustino_Sarmiento?
...that the Brazilian Carnival (pictured) is held forty days prior to Lent?
...that Día de la Raza commemorates Christopher Columbus's landing in the Americas, and is controversial because of the subsequent bloodshed in the region?
...that Juan Pablo Duarte is celebrated by the Dominican Republic on the 26 January, as one of the key men in their early history?
...that Paraguayans celebrate the founding of their capital, Asunción, on 15 August?

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