lots of them. local fireworks specialists called artieros, light the fuses. crowds take in the show, and take cover. these pyrotechnics will go on for another 12 hours. this is ramedios, usually a sleepy place, until christmas eve. that s when las parandas starts up. the street festivals began over 200 years ago to lure ramedios citizens to the town s midnight mass. but the town priest says las op. parandas now dwarf the services. translator: we re afraid that rockets will fly into the church and kill someone, so we have canceled mass. reporter: the homemade