Cruz Alta

Due to cutbacks, however, some smaller cities such as Cruz Alta and Santo Angelo in southern Brazil have had to cancel their festivities.

Born in 1951, Mr. Cemin moved with his family from Cruz Alta to São Paulo as a teenager, with the goal of becoming an engineer like his father.

This was in the late 1950s, when the area surrounding the small city of Cruz Alta was, he said, “still known as gaucho land, as primitive as the American West in the 19th century.”

Boy In Cruz Alta, Argentina, Ricardo Pignon, 5, his head filled with tales of kidnappers, heard a tax collector demand money from his grandfather, shot the collector dead.