inmate carlos cervantes saw it all happen. >> it was like a bomb exploding, it just went off and the whole prison system was taken over, the whole facility. >> for 36 hours, the riot raged out of control. finally, when national guardsmen entered the facility, they found the interior in ruins. 8 officers and over 100 inmates were injured. 33 prisoners were dead. cell block 4 is where rampaging inmates took their revenge on informers held in protective custody. >> a lot of people that were considered rats and so on and so forth were housed here. and one of the inmates was actually brutally burned, and down here on the floor is the area where he was burned, and it doesn't matter what we've done to try to cover that up. we've tried floor wax, stripper with industrial paint, we've painted gray, battleship gray paint over it, and it just keeps resurfacing to the top. within a month and a half this whole burn mark would be back on the surface of the paint again. >> this is an area here where an inmate actually got chopped up with an ax. so just things that are almost very, very difficult to

carlos cervantes vive y respira carnaval, durante mÁs de 40 aÑos ha participado en esta fiesta con sun vibrar al pÚblico a lo largo de la vÍa 40, una de las arterias de la ciudad. >> cÓmo se ve? >> se ve espectacular, la gente gritando y gozando! >> rÍos movÍan sus caderas al ritmo de los tambores. >> para poder disfrutar sin que nadie sepa quiÉnes somos. >> la danza son de negro es una de las mÁs celebradas por sus caracterÍsticas muecas. >> por quÉ hacen esas caras chistosas? >> es nuestra burla de los negros hacia los blancos. >> ademÁs del folclor tambiÉn se resalta la idiosincracia costeÑa y se le rinde tributo a los grandes personajes, desde el papa francisco, hasta celia cruz se vuelven barranquilleros. algunos en carnaval vuelven a la vida y otros hasta pierden la cabeza de tanto jolgorio. >> la fiesta del carnaval es una gozare aquÍ no hay estrato ni clase social aquÍ lo que hay es que gozar! >> segÚn expertos internacionales el carnaval de barranquilla es el segundo mÁs importante del mundo despuÉs del de rÍo de janeiro, aunque aquÍ nadie estÁ de acuerdo con eso. >> no tenem