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Carnaval in Salvador happens on the streets in late February to early March, where music and spontaneity rule and trios elétricos (electrically amplified bands playing atop speaker-laden trucks) work two million revellers into a frenzy. For an entire week they dance, drink and kiss until they drop, get up the next day and start again. Each year the city designates a theme for Carnaval and decorates the city accordingly.

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"The parties are leaving it up to me to try to rehabilitate them," said the judge, another former defense attorney who took office this year. "I am not waiting for them to commit a minor technical violation so I can then send them to prison for the rest of their life."

2014 May - Trade unions hold one-day strike in protest at country's worst ever mine disaster in Soma, which claimed at least 282 lives. Unions allege lax safety regulations, accuse Prime Minister Erdogan of complacent response.