los vejigantes

Dances of los vejigantes in Puerto Rico and los tastoanes in Mexico are prominent examples. In both festivals there are representations of Spanish horsemen and masked figures representing enslaved Africans or members of the Indigenous resistance.

…four traditional festival figures: the vejigante (masked trickster, a symbol of Africa), the caballero (horseman, a symbol of Spain), the viejo (one who wears rags, symbol of the common man), and the loca (men dressed as women who traditionally swept filth from the streets).