QCOSTARICA — The traditional Carnavales (carnival) and Tope Nacional (horse parade) will be suspended for 2024, to the money to better uses, announced this Friday morning the new mayor of San José, Diego Miranda.
This December, the downtown streets of Costa Rica’s capital city will be empty of the traditional festivities the days following Christmas.
According to Miranda’s statements in Sinart, television channel 13, he made this decision due to the need to redirect funds destined for communal projects in the city.
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“Zapote is going to be, I can announce it here. But the tope and the carnaval are not going to take place because they are deficient activities for the Municipality of San José. More than ¢120 million a year is spent those events,” Miranda said.
According to the mayor, each event costs the city around ¢60 million colones.
“The tope has become an event that produces a millionaire deficit for municipal coffers. For this and other reasons, I have made the decision not to carry out this activity. We will seek to redirect the resources previously allocated to this activity toward community and infrastructure works that are necessary in our neighborhoods. (…) It is an easy decision, but I am totally convinced that it is the best for San José,” said the mayor of San Jose on X (formerly Twitter.)
El tope se ha convertido en un evento que produce un déficit millonario para las arcas municipales. Por esta y por otras razones, he tomado la decisión de que no se realice esta actividad.
Buscaremos redirigir los recursos antes destinados a esta actividad hacia obras comunales…
— Diego Miranda Méndez (@DiegoMirandaSJO) July 19, 2024
The mayor expressed reluctance to speak “bad” about the people participating in these events. Every year, social media and news outlets are filled with reports of drunkenness, disorderly conduct on the streets, and petty crimes.
The tradition of a “civic festival of San José” can be traced back to 1825, when there was talk of a decree for its celebration, with the first event taking place in 1844.
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The original festivals took place in March, until 1860 when they were held in December.
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