It is a tradition in Panama to make an effigy to a well known person and either fill it with fireworks, or throw it into the fire on New Year’s eve. Through the burning or, more fun, the explosions, they release the bad feelings that the old year contained, along with the old year.
Three guesses as to who this is… and the first two don’t count…
That’s alot of bad spirits… At first, I thought it was a family waiting for the bus…
These seemed to be more popular in the province of Chame along the Pan-American Highway.
Definitely an interesting tradition and one that you won’t see in any other country…
Capn Scott