Juego de los Diablitos, Buenos Aires de Puntarenas

In the Juego de los Diablitos, Boruca men wearing carved balsa masks and burlap costumes play the Diablitos — the indigenous resistance — against a single figure representing the Spanish Bull. For three days the Diablitos chase and fight the Bull through the village. On the third day the Bull is symbolically killed. It is the only recurring ritual in the Americas in which the colonial conquest is publicly reversed. The event runs December 30th through January 2nd every year.