Palo de mayo all the smells of the world

Abstract

After the coming to power of the Sandinista Front in 1979, the Palo de Mayo - which was celebrated in the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua spontaneously, but with less and less vigor became a rigorously planned activity and that every May summons a lot of people, through the institution of the festivities of Mayo Ya. The aforementioned change was due to the fact that a group of young Sandinista leaders from the coast, taking advantage of the spirit of openness created by the Revolution, decided to rescue this tradition that was slowly disappearing, and to stop the commercialization in which it was falling in the capital of the Republic. Nobody ignores that the Palo de Mayo had abandoned the humble neighborhoods of Bluefields with its two guitars, its donkey jaw and its banjo, to settle with electronic instruments in the night-clubs and in the halls and patios of the wealthy of Managua, who ordered it to some agent for their bacchanals in May, January, April or December.