Changes for the next carnival, there will be specific days for lubolos and samba schools
From events of the Intendencia de Cerro Largo, work is already being done in the Organization of Carnival 2026 in the city of Melo.
The first 3 days- on Sunday and Monday- all the groups that are registered, of different items will participate, while on the final Friday it will be only for Samba schools and the closure, on Saturday, for lubolos troupes.
The costs will fall considerably in relation to previous years because there will be no hiring of figures of the Argentine show and the cache with Uruguayan vedettes will be renegotiated, in the case of the godmother of the Carnival Melense, Claudia Fernández.
“We have reached a point that did not happen before, which is that all the directors could sit at a round table with the mayor, negotiate with him face to face, which represents a point in favor for the carnival feeling one of them. We all agree, it will be known how much each group wins. It ended that myth that one won so much and the other much, that one was the best and that the other was accommodated with the intention Carnival. He stressed Fabián Martínez.
In just over 15 days, the Municipality will surely release the traditional advance to the different groups. “It is working very strong on that so that they already start working. We remember that some groups were left with debts. Unfortunately that comes from another administration, we cannot take charge, that debt does not appear anywhere either. The groups claim and I am aware that the debt is. Even of some had to take charge Morel how to pay Agadu, for example, to the security company the same An upcoming carnival ” He pointed out the event manager of the Intendencia.
A different system
“Carnival is going to be Saturday, Sunday and Monday, that is, February 14, 15 and 16, days in which all the groups together will participate” Fabián Martínez said.
“On Thursday 19 we are going to meet at the Summer Theater. There the local groups will have a certain time to make their presentation. That day there will be a musical closure with a tropical music group” advertisement.
“Then we return to Aparicio Saravia on Friday, February 20 with a parade only for Samba schools. That day will come, case of Artigas: we are already negotiating with Rampla and Empress of Progress, one of the champion school assured. “We are going to try to convince some of Montevideo as United States, some of the schools that are great and good, but we never brought them” He added.
“On Saturday 21 we are going to make the closure only with lubolos and with something characteristic aspect of our carnival such as masks” He stressed.
Argentine figures no
Consulted by THE PROFESSIONAL RADIO The event manager of the Intendencia de Cerro Largo confirmed that in Carnival 2026 there will be no presence of Argentine figures. “That’s what a lot of money left” said.
“Then those others, Uruguayas, like Petinatti that charged USD 10,000, like Claudia Fernández that charged USD 6,500, we will negotiate it with Claudia Fernández” commented. “We are going to tell him that this pile of money will not pay it because I prefer to bring two groups and not a single figure, beyond that we are talking about Claudia that is Carnival godmother, that people want and enjoy. In that case we will negotiate because it is a figure” highlighted.
“The others will not come” He said emphatically. “Perhaps some star linked to the carnival that wants to come to participate, we will offer the conditions for it to be: accommodation, transfer and food” held.
In the end Fabián Martínez said that the female audience is asking for the presence of a soccer player. “That women themselves propose names” asked.
