The Barranquilla carnival this year will not start until March, but carnival-hungry residents have already declared the festive season officially opened. According to local newspaper El Heraldo, one of the organizing…
Lorena Paola Arenas Castrillón, a 25-year old stylist from the caribbean town of Soledad, on Thursday was presented as the queen of the Gay Carnival in Barranquilla and Atlantico. Following…
Fans will have a second chance to take part in Barranquilla Carnival celebrations this year… if they happen to be in Chile that is. The owners of the Colombiana restaurant…
The famous festivities at Colombia’s Barranquilla Carnival wound down Tuesday night, leaving this year’s festival with one of the lowest murder rates registered in years. Officials statistics showed four homicides over…
Visitors to the 2010 Barranquilla Carnival, which opened this Saturday in a haze of glitter and sound, witnessed a new trend amongst the parade’s performers – topless dancing made its…
Flamboyant festivities at Barranquilla Carnival were dampened over the weekend when a young woman was stabbed to death by her ex-husband after she refused to dance with him. Twenty-year-old Laura…
The Barranquilla carnival, one of Colombia’s most important cultural events, opened on Saturday, and more than 800,000 people flocked to see the lavishly decorated cars, dancers, and beauty queens. Some…
The Barranquilla health secretary on Friday placed hospitals in the coastal city on yellow alert in the lead-up to the community’s four days of flamboyant festivities. Health Secretary Luis Alexander…
The Barranquilla Carnival is one of Colombia’s most high profile events but it lacks sufficient resources for tourists, and could be dangerous for foreign visitors, according to Colombian publication El…