Tag: Beija-Flor samba group

• Friday, February 20th 2015 - 07:44 UTC

  Beija-Flor, the top samba group this year in Rio's Carnival, but who's behind?

  

  The Beija-Flor samba group was declared the champion of Rio de Janeiro's hotly contested Brazilian Carnival parade competition on Wednesday. However the group stoked controversy by staging a presentation focusing on Equatorial Guinea, run by Africa's longest-ruling dictator, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.