Guatemalan Official: Burning Devil Dirties The Air

Posted by Jenniffer Sheldon on Friday, February 16, 2024

Guatemalans on Sunday celebrated a beloved tradition: "Burning of the Devil." Across the country, people lit bonfires and burned figures of Satan as a way to symbolically cleanse their houses. But the minister of the environment, for the first time, had asked Guatemalans not to burn the devils because it pollutes the air.

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