Red Handed in Nicaragua

Living in the small rural town of Santo Tomás, in Nicaragua, is hard, but
without my Rake it would be downright unbearable. Luckily, my brother
and various friends know that I love keeping up to date with Twin
Cities affairs, and have enough compassion to send me The Rake every once
and a while. Semana Santa, the holy week before Easter, is especially
rough. There is absolutley nothing to do but sweat and watch religious
processions. Two days before the procession of the positions of the
cross these young men ambushed me in the middle of reading. The day
after, they were off to "bring the devil." Their role is to run
through town screaming, scaring small children, and mocking the pious
Catholics that walk in the processions.