Interview: What Is La Tirana Festival? (feat. Marcelo Puch 🇨🇱)

The transcript and vocab flashcards of this episode are available on Patreon.

Things I absolutely love about Chile: That people dress up as Satan and go dance for 10 straight days in the desert.

Yeah, for real. But don’t get it twisted — they do it to honor the Virgin of Carmen.

We might be intense, but we’re not satanic.

Since I’m way too much of an atheist and a heretic to explain this properly, I invited Marcelo Puch to talk about the biggest religious festival in all of Chile:

La fiesta de La Tirana.

What do you need to bring? How are you expected to behave?

(Spoiler: no showing up drunk or naked.) That’s just how we roll.

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