Carnival celebrations began across Brazil last night, with revellers swarming the streets in a sea of colour, glitter and feathers.
Party-goers showed off their opulent costumes in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro during the first night of celebrations for the five-day festival which marks the start of Lent.
This year's event is the first such celebration since Jair Bolsonaro took office, and it is expected that the festival will target the far-right president known for offending the LGBT community and minorities.
At Carmelitas, one of Rio's most traditional street parties, revelers sang along to a samba song titled: 'Blue or pink, it's all the same,' a reference to Bolsonaro's human rights minister, Damares Alves, who declared: 'It's a new era in Brazil, boys wear blue and girls wear pink,' soon after she took up her post.
Carnival celebrations began across Brazil last night, with revellers swarming the streets in a sea of colour, glitter and feathers. Pictured: Sao Paulo
Pictured: a dancer from the Academicos do Tatuape samba school (left), and another from the X-9 Paulistana special group (right) at the Anhembi Sambodromo in Sao Paolo
Last night was the beginning of the five-day festival which marks the start of Lent. Pictured: the Imperio de Casa Verde float
This year's event is the first such celebration since Jair Bolsonaro took office, and it is expected that the festival will target the far-right president known for offending the LGBT community and minorities. Pictured: Sao Paulo
'This parade is an act of resistance to the oppressive new government,' said Monica Machado, a percussion player in the band.
The song's lyrics went, 'On the train of history, we can't go in reverse,' a reference to the Brazilian president's open admiration of Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship.
Bolsonaro has famously said he would rather have a dead son than a gay son and that police who kill criminals should be given medals not prison sentences.
Several party-goers' costumes targeted an early corruption scandal in the Bolsonaro government.
Vinicius Alves, a university student, wore all orange with a headband adorned with fake money and orange slices, a nod to the Brazilian expression 'orange employee,' which refers to politicians' use of ghost employees to launder money.
Pictured: a reveller from the X9-Paulistana samba performing in an incredible outfit featuring some very large feathers in Sao Paulo
The Imperio de Casa Verde samba school created a float based on the ill-fated Titanic, complete with two dancers as Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet's characters from the movie
The celebrations last night mark the beginning of a five-day festival, timed around the start of Lent. Pictured: Sao Paulo
Dancers of all ages get involved in the colourful festival, including this little girl in the Imperio de Casa Verde samba school
Just three weeks into Bolsonaro's government, questions were raised about suspicious payments to his son's and wife's bank accounts from his son's driver, who many suspect was an 'orange employee.'
'(The driver) has been called to court several times and never showed up, so I'm demanding answers this Carnival,' Alves said. 'Carnival is resistance, samba is resistance.'
In the lead up to the party, one group of revelers wrote a Carnival jingle that went viral. Its lyrics read, 'Mommy, I'm going to buy a gun, Bolsonaro's already made it easier, I'm going to shoot all the communists.'
At the official samba competition in Rio, one top samba school said its reaction to Brazil's sharp turn to the right was a parade dedicated to untold parts of Brazil's history.
'The Bolsonaro vote is linked to education,' explained Deivid Domenico, the co-author of the song. 'The people of Brazil don't know its history, its roots, its identity. This is why I think telling that history is important.'
Pictured: members of the samba school of Academicos do Tucuruvi perform during the Carnival of Brazil parade at the Anhembi sambodrome
One group of samba dancers, from the school of Academicos do Tucuruvi, even had plastic dolls attached to their costumes
Another group, from the Academicos do Tatuape samba school, performed in bright orange janitor outfits, complete with broomsticks
Rio's evangelical bishop-turned-mayor, Marcelo Crivella, came under fire on the party's first day for skirting his duty to kick off the celebrations by handing over the key of the city to the king of Carnival for the third consecutive year.
He told reporters that he would be turning in the keys to Carnival, not the keys to the city as is tradition.
'It's very disrespectful. I'm trying to understand why they wouldn't want to participate in this ceremony,' said Mauricio de Jesus, the president of the cultural center where the key is held.
The evangelical Crivella has made negative comments about African-rooted religions, which many Brazilians practice and have great cultural influence on Carnival celebrations.
'This is disrespectful to the black population, to the black community, to our roots,' de Jesus said.
Pictured: dancers from the Academicos do Tatuape samba school perform on a float during a carnival parade in Sao Paulo
The carnival of Brazil parade is world-famous, with hundreds of thousands of people travelling to the Latin American country
Pictured: the intricate costumes of one of the dancers from the samba school of X-9 Paulistana special group in Sao Paolo
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