The President of Venezuela had already brought Christmas forward to mid-October during the pandemic period. According to Nicolás Maduro's announcement, Christmas festivities in the country will begin on October 1st.
Nicolás Maduro doesn't seem to be fazed by the controversies that have haunted him in recent months. After the controversy surrounding the presidential elections in Venezuela and the most recent seizure of his private plane by the United States, the Venezuelan President has now announced that Christmas will be brought forward in the country... from October 1st.
“It's September and it already feels like Christmas. That's why this year - as a way of paying tribute and thanking you - I'm going to decree that Christmas be brought forward to October 1st. Christmas has arrived with peace, happiness and security,” said Nicolás Maduro during the television program ‘Con Maduro +’, which he hosted.
The announcement was made hours after the Venezuelan Attorney General's Office issued an arrest warrant for Edmundo González Urrutia, opposition leader and presidential candidate in the last elections.
Nicolás Maduro also mentioned the blackout that left around 80% of the country without electricity on Friday.
“The criminal electrical attack brought the economy to a halt. They didn't succeed. The people continued to work, to labor, and with the support of the working class and the civic-military police union, we guaranteed absolute peace, we managed to recover in record time from one of the deadliest blows against the homeland,” he also commented on his Venezuelan television program.
Nicolas Maduro is scheduled to take office after Christmas and New Year's on January 10th.
“Christmas is when Man wants it”
It's not the first time that the Venezuelan President has brought forward festive dates in the country. In the first year of the pandemic, Nicolás Maduro brought Christmas forward to October 15th. The same had already happened the year before and the year after in an attempt to consolidate his electoral base in the face of so much opposition.
During these periods, the distribution of aid and bags of food in the neighborhoods is intensified, through the so-called Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP).
In 2013, the year Hugo Chávez died, Nicolás Maduro decreed that the celebrations be brought forward to November. At the time, Venezuela was facing a serious socio-economic crisis.
The measure was adopted shortly after Nicolás Maduro announced the creation of the Vice-Ministry for the Supreme Happiness of the People.
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