La Vega Closes Carnival Weekend with Big Parade

Representatives from Aruba, Haiti and Curazao in addition to 60 cities around the country will take to the streets and avenues of La Vega this weekend to celebrate the closing of Carnival 2008.

The March 1st parade, beginning at 2 p.m. will be a festival of merengue provided by Diómedes, El Sujeto and Jucafre. The music will accompany La Vega residents as they celebrate their party with the “limping devils” as their main protagonists.

Shamin Díaz, Rubio Charlie, Venya Carolina, Luis Enrique, Grechen Acosta, Joel Anico, Jennifer García and Lauren Martínez, among others will be in charge of animation.

There will be a huge, multicolored show featuring folkloric groups from each of the participating regions, according to the festival organizers headed by Fausto Ruiz of La Vega Syndicate and Orlando Lora, president of the La Vega Carnival Union (UCAVE). Great attention has been paid to every detail related to the logistics of an event of this size in which large numbers of people attend. Careful security and traffic coordination has been organized to make certain things run smoothly, according to businessman Luis Medrano, in charge of organizing the event.

The parade, which begins on Pedro A. Rivera Avenue, will be transmitted by satellite by Vega TV, Coral 39 and Mangu Music Television.