Late afternoon on Easter Sunday is a loose affair in Chugchilán. First of all, it’s Sunday. That’s market day, the one day when everyone from down the valley or up the hill comes to town. Second of all, Easter weekend means plenty of extra folks in town, who have returned to visit family. And third, they remember being incredible drunk last Easter and anticipate doing it again this year.
Drinking in Chugchilán is done in a very social manner. It involves one bottle of fire water and one small plastic cup. The drinker stumbles over to a friend, leans on them for support, pours a cup full and offers it to the friend. Then if the friend has any booze they pour a cup for the stumbler.
By five o’clock in the afternoon the happiest (drunkest) people were congregating around a street band and were merrily dancing (stumbling), sharing (spilling) drinks and beaming smiles as if the Easter bunny had left them all golden eggs.
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