As part of a special series for 2022, we’re doing a deep visual dive into fascinating Carnival traditions around the world. More than 12,000 feet above sea level in western Bolivia, in the small city of Oruro, every year for centuries has seen a battle between good and evil. Dancers wearing elaborate, horned, technicolor masks perform the Diablada, or “Dance of the Devils,” trying and ultimately failing to defeat the Archangel Michael. Though it might be the festival’s most visually striking and thematically poignant set piece, the Diablada is but…
