Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The last day of the year has arrived – finally! -, today, the nostalgia in the 2020 countdown will leave many people with tears and feelings of pain, during a year marked by more than nine months of pandemic from Covid-19 and two natural phenomena wreaking havoc.
Today many Hondurans are, just as 2020 starts to die and 2021 is about to be born, they will practice their traditions with confidence that the good will soak up the new year with happiness, and that all the sorrows and pain 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 follow biosecurity measures.
These customs hold true despite the unwanted guest, the covid-19, being able to slip into those family dinners.
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Others will greet the New Year with its traditions that depend on people’s ability to acquire, according to sociologist Pablo Carías.
The depictions of characters, filled with mortars and fireworks, will be burned tonight as a traditional popular expression.
Change
Armando Orellana, an expert in sociology, believed that these attitudes reflect the idea of citizens’ renewal. “There are people who have no preconditions for these activities, but there are those who tend to change with these actions. They are social constructs that people have established, though the days go on, but they are ways of expression their desire for innovation, ”said Orellana. Among other activities that people are curious about is going out with a suitcase to walk around the block, with which they hope to make many trips in the New Year.
There are those who go a little further and wear red underwear to have a fortune in love and yellow to make money. José Almendárez is a citizen of the capital who died at noon on January 1 12 grapes together with his family to make a wish.
“By 2021, I am asking for health and prosperity, but what I wish most is for this pandemic to go away,” he said hopefully.