Posted on 10/30/2005 2:34:24 PM PST by Kitten Festival
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez urged Venezuelan parents not to dress their children in costumes for Halloween, calling it a U.S. custom that has no place in the South American country's cultural traditions.
Speaking during his weekly radio and television show Sunday, Chavez called Halloween a "gringa," or North American, custom.
"Families go and begin to disguise their children as witches," Chavez said. "That is contrary to our ways."
Chavez said he was urging Venezuelans to reflect on the subject. In recent years it has become common to see Venezuelan parents holding parties for children dressed as ghouls, animals and witches.
In one odd incident a week ago, authorities found more than a dozen jack-o'-lanterns left in spots around Caracas bearing anti-government messages and what appeared to be bomb-like fuses. Police and firefighters removed the pumpkins with caution, though the jack-o'-lanterns reportedly bore messages saying they were not explosives.
Paper skeletons bearing anti-Chavez messages also have appeared in spots across Caracas recently, and government officials have blamed sectors of the opposition with aiming to create chaos.
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To me, it sounds like Chavez is a racist.
Has Hugo taken on Mexican culture for "Dia de los Muertos" yet?
Chavez has proved his stupidity and lack of education again for not knowing the origin of Halloween which came from Europe.
What, no mention of the meso American cultures such as the Aztecs and their feast of the dead...aka, morphed into "Dia de los Muertos" now observed on 1-2 November.
Actually Hugo and the Marxists ought to fear memorializing the dead. Marxism has produced so many dead.
So the reign of Communism has begun.
Better be careful he doesn't piss off his own Catholic population, which celebrates the feast of All Souls Day.
Chavez is sounding like a Baptist minister. Is he changing?
President Hugo Chavez and Pat Robertson have something in common.
No, typical of my Church, we use a local custom as a means to evangelize.
And there's nothing wrong with that unless you're so full of your own dogma that you're unable to see all ways to reach people.
let's send some 'trick or treaters' down to get him....
ROTFL! The world has indeed lost all common sense. I would really laugh at this guy, but maybe he is thinking about the Senator from NY who rides her broom and that indeed is a horror! :-)
I'm going to go trick or treating dressed as a tinhorn dictator. "Treat, or I'll federalize your property!" In my benevolent goodness, of course.
Is he worried his Presidential Palace is going to be TP'd?
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