"Blowing of the Judases" during Easter Week in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico


Paper-mache replicas of hated people hang from ropes and are blown up when firecrackers wrapped around their waists explode.


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Photo credit: © Nancy Hoyt Belcher / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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