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Spain’s Tomato War Celebrates 67th Year with 40,000 Attending

August 29, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News

About 40,000 young people from all over the world on Wednesday in the eastern Spanish town of Buñol participated in a gigantic food fight with ripe tomatoes, the popular "Tomatina" festival, which this year was transformed into an act of collective catharsis whereby people could - for a while, anyway - forget the effects of the country's serious economic crisis. continue reading »