CHILE: THOUSANDS OF CHILEANS TAKE TO THE STREETS OF SANTIAGO FOR THE LATIN AMERICAN'S FIRST LOVE PARADE

Record ID: 861914

  • Title: CHILE: THOUSANDS OF CHILEANS TAKE TO THE STREETS OF SANTIAGO FOR THE LATIN AMERICAN'S FIRST LOVE PARADE
  • Date: 8th January 2005
  • Summary: MCU (English) UNIDENTIFIED PARADE ORGANIZER SAYING: "Well, when you do it for the first time, you'll never know how many people are going to come so, what I see, this is the first time we do this in Santiago, Chile, first time in South America and I see many people here." LV PARTICIPANTS IN PARADE SV DJ BOOTH VARIOUS OF FIRETRUCK DOUSING PARADE PARTICIPANTS WITH WATER TO COOL OFF (2 SHOTS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE DANCING (2 SHOTS) MCU (Spanish) PARADE ORGANIZER MANUEL MARTINEZ, SAYING: "So far we are very happy and hopefully we will all stay that way until 6:00 in the morning which will be more or less the time that we will go rest." VARIOUS OF FIRETRUCK DOUSING PARADE PARTICIPANTS WITH WATER TO COOL OFF (3 SHOTS) PEOPLE DANCING (2 SHOTS) WOMEN KISSING VARIOUS OF PEOPLE DANCING (2 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 23rd January 2005 12:00
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  • Location: SANTIAGO, CHILE
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  • Country: Chile
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA8D8X4TB51YY20QCF3KPPLVYFE
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  • Story Text: Thousands of Chileans take to the streets of Santiago for Latin America's first love parade.
    Some 30,000 Chileans took to the streets of Santiago on Saturday (January 08) to celebrate the first "Love Parade" in Latin America, the electronic music world's primary celebration.
    The revelers paraded through the streets of Santiago blasting electronic music and dancing. Later they gathered in Forest Park to continue the celebration that will last until dawn.
    "So far we are very happy and hopefully we will all stay that way until 6:00 in the morning which will be more or less the time that we will go rest," parade organizer Manuel Martinez said.
    Event organizers had estimated the number of people could reach 300,000.
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