Monigotes - New Year's Eve in Ecuador

Burn away the past year with paper mache Monigotes. The monigotes are paper mache images of political figures, cartoons, or random heads that get placed on what, I don't know. This year smurfs and Captain America seemed to be the most popular items sold on the street.
 The tradition in Guayaquil is to burn these at midnight on New Year's Eve, thus getting rid of 2011.
 The burning started early though and last night I may have seen the remains of a smurf on fire.
The workmanship on some of these is pretty impressive. I saw some of them getting hand painted on the street.
 Some are kind of creepy.
 But where else will you ever see a pile of heads?
Only in Ecuador

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