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Maduro announces Xmas celebration for Oct. 1
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro brought forward Christmas to Oct. 1 for the third time in his administration, he announced Tuesday in his TV show Con Maduro+ broadcasted on YouTube.
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro brought forward Christmas to Oct. 1 for the third time in his administration, he announced Tuesday in his TV show “Con Maduro+” broadcasted on YouTube.
“It is September and it already smells like Christmas, and that is why this year, in homage to you, in gratitude to you, I am going to decree an early Christmas on October 1,” he said in a country still shattered by the controversial July 28 elections he claimed to have won without producing any document to back-up that assessment other than the announcement by the National Electoral Council (CNE) and its ratification by the Supreme Court's Electoral Branch.
“Christmas starts on October 1. For everyone, Christmas has arrived, with peace, happiness, and security,” Maduro rambled on. Such an announcement is expected to trigger a series of government handouts of food and other supplies in less-favored neighborhoods.
Wow, talk about desperate. But it includes handouts from Santa Govt so maybe it will work