Well, here's another classic case of This is Tenerife or TiT syndrome, which could be summed up by the rhetorical question, "Well, what did you expect, this is Tenerife?"
Regular readers may remember that back in April 2009, we ran a blog post when the 2010 Santa Cruz Carnaval theme was announced.
At that time, it was slated to be La Historia de la Humanidad (The History of Humanity) - a noble, but perhaps ambitious topic.
Too ambitious, clearly, because, when we begin collecting information now that the Carnaval is right upon us, we find that the theme has changed to the mere Historia de un Carnaval (History of a Carnaval).
That does seem more locally topical and, potentially even more interesting, but it's pretty curious isn't it? Yes, we went back and checked our original source, which was the announcement of the theme and the contest to design the poster for it. The winning poster (above) with the ape, is consistent with the humanity theme, but holds no particular significance within the history of the island's Carnaval.
What's more, we have no idea when the theme was changed, or why (in July 2009 the History of Humanity was still listed as the theme). Was the change even announced, or did it just happen and they were hoping nobody noticed? 
Meanwhile, other "novelties" were announced back in March 2009, which suggested that the Gala for the selection of the Carnaval Queen would be held on the Friday, instead of the announcing parade. The Gala has always been on the Wednesday, the opening parade on the Friday evening and, I'd imagine a bloody riot would take place if anyone tried to muck about with these traditions. Perhaps it did, because there seems to be no more mention of that (nor a proposed King of Carnaval contest) and the Gala is back to normal on Wednesday and the opening parade on Friday.
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