Portal:Latin America/Did you know/Week 33, 2006

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 * ...that Teacher's Day on September 11 in Argentina commemorates the death of one of its Presidents, Domingo_Faustino_Sarmiento?
 * ...that the Brazilian Carnival (pictured) is held forty days prior to Lent?
 * ...that Día de la Raza commemorates Christopher Columbus's landing in the Americas, and is controversial because of the subsequent bloodshed in the region?
 * ...that Juan Pablo Duarte is celebrated by the Dominican Republic on the 26 January, as one of the key men in their early history?
 * ...that Paraguayans celebrate the founding of their capital, Asunción, on 15 August?