Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The last day of the year arrived -At last! -, today nostalgia in the 2020 countdown will leave some tears and feelings of pain to many people, for a year marked by more than nine months of pandemic by covid-19 and two natural phenomena that wreaked havoc.
Today, many Hondurans, just as it begins to agonize in 2020 and be about to be born in 2021, they will put into practice their traditions with which they trust that the good will soak in this new year, and all sorrows and pains will remain in the past.
Some people take the opportunity to go to Mass or worship and others to gather as a family for dinner with a commitment to comply with biosecurity measures.
These customs remain in force even though the unwanted guest, the covid-19, may slip into these family dinners.
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Others will receive the new year with their traditions that depend on the ability of people to acquire, according to the sociologist Pau Carías.
Representations of characters, stuffed with mortars and firecrackers, will be burned tonight as a traditional popular expression.
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Armando Orellana, an expert in sociology, considered that these attitudes reflect the idea of renewal of citizens. “There are those who have no conditions for these activities, but there are those who with these acts are predisposed to change. They are social constructions that human beings have set dates, although the days continue, but they are ways of expressing themselves his desires for innovation, “Orellana said. Among other activities that people curiously do is go out with a suitcase to walk around the stable, so they hope to have many trips in the new year.
Some go a little further and wear red underwear to have fortune in love and yellow to get money. José Almendárez is a capital that at 12:00 on January 1 will eat the 12 grains of grapes together with your family to order a wish.
“For 2021 I call for health and prosperity, but what I most desire is for this pandemic to go away,” he said hopefully.