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Santa Claus Across Middle America in Mid-Summer Cheer
The piece notes how Christmas is celebrated in Middle America with picnics and outdoor activities amid warm weather. It highlights creche figures in El Salvador and Panama, tarrying of Virgin images in Cuba, and varied customs across ten republics including Mexico and Nicaragua. Families prepare pinatas and fruit-filled jars, children blindfolded, competing in a shared festive spirit.
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Santa Claus
Middle America
Ole Saint Nick
el Salvador
Mexico
Panama
Creche
Cuba
Guatemala
Salvador
Juras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Haiti