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Even though Franco was familiar with the Colombian folk sounds of cumbia, vallenato and joropo, she had never been to the country herself and couldn’t travel there safely because of the pandemic.

She gave the main character, Mirabel, a plucky joropo — which becomes identified with her search for answers as to why the family’s magical house is falling apart.

There’s something for everyone with Korean percussion, an Albanian accordion player, Colombian Joropo music, Afro-Caribbean Garifuna music and Navajo music and dance.

Waiters in bow ties passed around cold beer and grilled chorizos as a band played “joropo,” fast-paced folk music performed with a harp, maracas and a four-string guitar.

In an apparent attempt to project indifference to Venezuela’s latest political convulsion, Maduro also tweeted a video of himself dancing to regional joropo music with the first lady, Cilia Flores.