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Christmas in Venezuela kicks off in October, President Maduro has declared
NY Post ^ | 4 Sep, 2024 | AP

Posted on 09/04/2024 6:59:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The world’s attention on Venezuela has been focused in the last weeks on the fallout from a highly contested presidential election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to have won, the ensuing persecution of critics and the arrest warrant against the former opposition presidential candidate.

But as political tensions escalate, President Nicolás Maduro decided there was a more important matter to discuss: Christmas and the need to kick off the jolly season a tad early this year. In October, to be precise.

“It’s September, and it already smells like Christmas,” Maduro said Monday night during his weekly television show.

“That’s why this year, as a way of paying tribute to you all, and in gratitude to you all, I’m going to decree an early Christmas for October 1.”

But not everyone seems eager to start singing Christmas carols.

“Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy, family reunions, parties, presents,” José Ernesto Ruiz, a 57-year-old office worker, said Tuesday in Caracas, the capital.

“(But) without money and with this political crisis, who can believe that there will be an early Christmas?”

This is not the first time that Maduro, in power since 2013, has declared the early arrival of Christmas. He did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, but never this early.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; electiontheft; nicolasmaduro; venezuela
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1 posted on 09/04/2024 6:59:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Maybe he should declare that everyone’s birthday is on the same date. That way it is difficult to forget someone’s birthday.


2 posted on 09/04/2024 6:59:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Next the Official Language of Venezuela will be Swedish.


3 posted on 09/04/2024 7:00:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

So that means two additional months of having to endure hearing “All I Want For Christmas Is You”.


4 posted on 09/04/2024 7:02:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

What a (sick) joke.


5 posted on 09/04/2024 7:02:07 AM PDT by goodnesswins (DEI....Divide, Enslave, Indoctrinate.....OR ......Didn't Earn It)
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To: dfwgator

And everyone will change their underwear every day. Underwear will be worn on the outside so it can be checked.

(Or however that bit goes. Long time since I saw that movie.)


6 posted on 09/04/2024 7:02:10 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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7 posted on 09/04/2024 7:02:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: MtnClimber
Maduro and his 'Strength through Joy'.

Sound familiar from the DNC convention?

8 posted on 09/04/2024 7:02:42 AM PDT by politicket
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To: MtnClimber

This is what happens when you vote based on cult of personality. Chavez was the gateway to this guy.


9 posted on 09/04/2024 7:03:37 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: dfwgator

And pumpkin spice.


10 posted on 09/04/2024 7:03:57 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: MtnClimber
...ensuing persecution of critics and the arrest warrant against the former opposition presidential candidate.

This sounds somehow familiar.

11 posted on 09/04/2024 7:04:48 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: ProudDeplorable

This is what happens when you vote based on cult of personality.

Play it, Vernon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0


12 posted on 09/04/2024 7:06:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

What? No dance in the streets with bands on the corner?


13 posted on 09/04/2024 7:06:52 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: MtnClimber

He’s gonna buy himself a new plane.


14 posted on 09/04/2024 7:09:35 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: MtnClimber

Changing times and seasons..............hmmmm...............


15 posted on 09/04/2024 7:11:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

Maduro has some good cocaine.


16 posted on 09/04/2024 7:13:15 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: MtnClimber

“Nobody ever shoots Santa Claus” - Al Smith


17 posted on 09/04/2024 7:14:45 AM PDT by Clemenza
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To: SunkenCiv

Daniel 7:25

He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.


18 posted on 09/04/2024 7:16:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: dfwgator

“ Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old!.”


19 posted on 09/04/2024 7:16:57 AM PDT by Clemenza
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To: MtnClimber

Commies ALWAYS change dates.


20 posted on 09/04/2024 7:17:16 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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