The follow-up of the news press about the Barranquilla Carnival shows a high percentage of articles that, since its proclamation as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO up to this moment, seems to probe or make public the interests and economical scandals that have been generated in the epicenter of the organizations that now run it. This approach makes a brief tour through its 100 years of history, from the first anthropological research of its dances and costumes, to the economical critique that has generated the acknowledgement of one of the biggest carnivals in the Caribbean and its inclusion in the world circuit of cultural industry.