<P> In El Salvador, New Year's Eve is spent with families . Family parties start around 5: 00 pm, and last until 1: 00 to 3: 00 am, the following day . Families eat dinner together and sing traditional New Year's Eve songs, such as "Cinco para las Doce". After the dinner, individuals light fireworks and continue partying outside . A radio station broadcasts a countdown to midnight . When the clock strikes midnight, fireworks are lit across the country . People start exchanging hugs and wishes for the new year . </P> <P> A New Year's Eve tradition in Ecuador is for men to dress haphazardly in drag (clowny looking make - up, cheap colorful wigs, very hairy legs in miniskirts) for New Year's Eve representing the "widow" of the year that has passed . The "widows" then go to the streets and stop each car that passes on that particular street in order to parody some form of sexy dancing . Large crowds would gather around to watch and laugh at the entertainment and the drivers are forced to give the "widows" some coins in order to obtain passage through the street . </P> <P> There are also traditional family events and meals and modern celebrations such as hosting parties and going to nightclubs . People usually eat grapes and drink Champagne with close family members and friends . </P> <P> The main event takes place at midnight where fireworks are lit along with thousands of life - size effigies called "Año Viejo". Most every local family creates the effigy from paper scraps, old clothes or purchases it altogether . They place just outside the front of their home . The effigy represents things you disliked from the previous year and are made to look like famous celebrities, politicians, public servants, cartoons, etc . They are burnt right at midnight to shed the old year and represent a new beginning . Some of the braver Ecuadorians jump through these burning effigies 12 times to represent a wish for every month . </P>

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