Moving further South along the Carbbean Coast to Nicaragua, María F Navarro holds monthly Saturday milongas in Managua. They are organized in cooperation with the Academia Pasión Latina Nicaragua. Occasionally, they hold special milongas at the Hotel Seminole.
In San Jose, Costa Rica, there is a milonga held at the Centro de Artes Promenade, on the first Saturday of the month. It is called Milonga Promenade, Pamela Camacho organizes the Festival de Tango Costa Rica which is held in April. It always features live music and visiting instructors from Argentina.
Tango Panamá is a non-profit and voluntary organization with the mission to encourage and inform people to enlarge the tango community and to support everybody who helps on the growth of this art in the region of Panama, They hold regularly scheduled milongas on Wednesdays at the Hotel Riu Plaza Panama. Classes are given at the Academia de Danza.
Along the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, in Caracas, Tango Caracas holds milongas at the Centro Uruguayo Venezolano, on Saturdays. On Sundays, Ivan Martinez organizes a milonga at the Nuevo Circo de Caracas dance school. An open-air milonga called La Mariposa is held at Parque Santa Cecilia, This milonga is organized by Zoraya Baliache. On Wednesdays, its Milonga del Uruguayo at the restaurant Parrilla Uruguaya, organized by the Milagros Hance association. Earllier in the afternon, the Arrebato Gotan holds a practica at the Discovery Bar. On Fridays and Saturdays, Milonga del Ungaro is held at the Casa Hungara ballroom, organized by Elena Spakosky.
All along the Caribbean coast, there are pockets of tango, some large, some miniscule. But, tango is living along the edge this incredible sea, Each community is unique, and worthy of attention, as tango evolves here.
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