section_path: Long-standing customs/Spanish-speaking countries
section_name: Spanish-speaking countries
paragraph_text: Spanish-speaking countries
  
  In many Spanish-speaking countries (and the Philippines), " Día de los Santos Inocentes " (Holy Innocents Day) is a festivity that is very similar to April Fools' Day, but is celebrated in late December (27, 28 or 29 December depending on the location). Despite this, in Galicia April Fools' Day is also traditional, as accounted by Ramón Otero Pedrayo, as " Día dos enganos ", and the tradition is embedded in a traditional saying about this day being the day when donkeys go where they must not go.
  
  In many Spanish-speaking countries (and the Philippines), " Día de los Santos Inocentes " (Holy Innocents Day) is a festivity that is very similar to April Fools' Day, but is celebrated in late December (27, 28 or 29 December depending on the location). Despite this, in Galicia April Fools' Day is also traditional, as accounted by Ramón Otero Pedrayo, as " Día dos enganos ", and the tradition is embedded in a traditional saying about this day being the day when donkeys go where they must not go.