In Venezuela, Christmas is whenever Maduro needs it to be.
Under heavy pressure from the United States, the Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro is making use of all of the maneuvers in his socialist bag of tricks.
Today, the tyrant of Caracas announced that Christmas celebrations in the country will begin on October 1, 2025, for the second year in a row.
The initiative of bringing Christmas forward is widely seen as a strategy to divert attention from the political, economic and military crises.
The Venezuelan Catholic Church criticized the move, since Christmas is a liturgical celebration that should take place on December 25 and should not be used as a political instrument by the government.
As US warships move into the Caribbean, Maduro announces Christmas will start on October 1st in Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/T5TzE0G6jJ
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“We are going to declare that from October first, Christmas begins in Venezuela, once again. This year as well, once again, this year Christmas starts on October first, with joy, commerce, activity, culture, Villancico, Gaita, Ayaka, Ayaka, it is the way to defend happiness, the right to happiness.”
Breitbart reported:
“The Venezuelan dictator claimed during the latest broadcast of his weekly show, With Maduro Plus, on Monday that the decision to reschedule Christmas would bring “benefits for the national economy” and would “defend happiness,” citing some of Venezuela’s musical and culinary Christmas traditions.
‘We are going to apply the formula from previous years, which has worked very well for the economy, for culture, for joy, for happiness, and we are going to decree that from October 1st, Christmas in Venezuela will start again’, Maduro announced, ‘this year too, again, this year Christmas starts on October 1st, with joy, commerce, activity, culture, Christmas carols, gaita, hallaca. Hallaca is the way to defend happiness, the right to happiness’.”
“The Venezuelan regime has an extensive record of animosity and threats towards the Venezuelan Catholic Church and has distorted Christian faith to further its socialist agenda throughout the years.
One of the more egregious cases took place in 2014, when the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), still mourning the death of the ‘Supreme and Eternal Commander of the Revolution’ Hugo Chávez in 2013, rewrote the Lord’s Prayer to worship the late dictator. The socialist bastardization of Christianity’s most important prayer called for Chávez to ‘lead us not into the temptation of capitalism’.”
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