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In spain most people go to the midnight mass on Christmas day. A traditional spanish Christmas dinner is chicken stuffed with truffles. But in northern Spain the most common Christmas dinner is seafood. After the midnight mass and the Christmas dinner, people fill the streets and dance to the sound of guitars and castanets.

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In Coombia they light candles

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On Christmas morning in Bolivia people drink hot chocolate and eat pastries.

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In Spain, people go to a midnight mass

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In the Dominican Republic La Navidad starts in October and ends in January. Christmas is a very important Holiday in the Dominican Republic because it is a time when lots of people come back to there hometown and celebrate with lots of yummy traditional foods that they have anticipated for the whole year.

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There is one last Christmas-related holiday on February 2nd called Candlemas

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In Costa Rica, Santa Claus doesn't bring them presents. The Baby Jesus does

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In Bolivia, the go to a church very late on Christmas Eve which sometimes lasts into

the morning. After they go to church families gather to have a big feast together.

Their meals feature picana which is a soup made of chicken, beef and corn.

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During the Xmas season there are parties called "las posadas", or a series of parties/processions, the last of which is Xmas eve.

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Christmas has only been celebrated in Cuba for 3 years

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In Colombia parents buy gifts and ask children to help wrap up gifts and to deliver them at corner streets where less fortunate children may be begging.

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Gifts are given from employers to employees called canasta.

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In Colombia they have el día de la velitas or the day of. The candles on December 7th

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In Chile they celebrate Christmas with Santa Claus

except his name is Viejo Pascuero, meaning old man christmas.

Some still call him Papa Noel. When houses don't have a chimney

He is known for climbing in from the window. Viejo Pascuero still comes

To the houses with his reindeer on his sleigh on Christmas Eve night. The

People have a big festival of foods on the eve including, the often dish

includes azuela de ave, a chicken soup filled with potatoes, onions and corn on the cob;

Also the people bake a big chicken if they are not having the soup, and pan de pasqua, a

Christmas bread filled with candies fruit.  They still decorate and set up christmas trees but they put

scenes of Jesus, Mary

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In Bolivia they get presents on January 6th from the the three kings.

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In Mexico x-mas season starts in early December & ends on January 6th, or Epiphany Day

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In Ecuador, the Ecuadorians have a famous tradition called the burning of the año viejo dummies. Dummy' stuffing often contains firecrackers and, occasionally, Chinese rockets, which are set off

during the immolations.They did this in order to get rid of the old and bring in the new

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In Cuba they always roast a pig and spend the day before christmas cooking. The party will last all night and even into the morning.

Link about Christmas in Cuba:

http://www.reindeerland.org/christmas-traditions/christmas-traditions-in-cuba.htm

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In argentina on the 24th they will go to church they go to a familyGathering and at midnight the adults' will dance and the younger kids will Go outside to watch fireworks

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In Uruguay it's SUMMER so they are on the beach a lot for Christmas - they also eat a traditional dessert called "PAN DULCE"...ever heard of that before?!  ;-)

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In Spain for New Years they will carry around suitcases if they hope to go on a trip,meat 12 grapes each for a stroke of night for good luck, wear yellow and red, and they eat a tablespoon of Lentils

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In Venezuela they had an early Christmas in November. They did this because they wanted happiness for all people.

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If you're Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and you're sweating an upcoming vote, the solution isn't to campaign more. No, the obvious answer is to move Christmas.

Maduro announced last week that Nov. 1 would herald the arrival of "early Christmas" in Venezuela, "because we want happiness for all people." Per Fox News Latino, Maduro sealed the deal by lighting Nativity lights at the Presidential Palace of Miraflores over the weekend and announcing that workers in the country will receive most of their bonuses and pensions nearly a month early.

Critics (and grinches) point out that, as a function of early Christmas, bonuses will be paid out by Dec. 1, just a week before the country is slated to hold municipal elections, on Dec. 8.

The surprising announcement comes six months into Maduro's first term, which has been described as "rocky with no honeymoon." Following Maduro's contested election after the death of Hugo Chávez in March, the country has suffered food shortages, electricity blackouts, a faltering economy and a toilet paper shortage.

Last week, Maduro created a Deputy Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness, tasked with coordinating anti-poverty missions in the country.

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Venezuela's President Just Moved Christmas To November

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If you're Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and you're sweating an upcoming vote, the solution isn't to campaign more. No, the obvious answer is to move Christmas. Maduro announced last week that Nov. 1 would herald the arrival of "early Christmas" in Venezuela, "because we want happiness for all people."

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In Colombia they don't get presents from Santa, they get them from baby Jesus

Who puts the presents near their bed

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In Puerto Rico, they don't get gifts from Santa, but from Los Reyes. On January 5, they cut shoe boxes, put grass in them, and put them under their parents bed, and during the night Los Reyes fill their boxes with sweets and gifts.