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Las Llamadas: Uruguayan festival born from African struggle

MONTEVIDEO (AFP) – As a little boy, Cesar Pintos – now 86 – played “drums” with his friends in the streets of Montevideo’s black-majority neighbourhoods, beating tin cans with twigs to ancestral rhythms brought to Uruguay by enslaved Africans. It was the 40s, barely 100 years since the abolition of slavery in the South American
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