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The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, has announced that the Christmas celebrations in his country will start in October.

“It’s September and already there’s a Christmas atmosphere. And that is why this year, as a sign of gratitude to you, I will decree an early Christmas from October 1,” the Venezuelan president said on his television program, shortly after the Prosecutor’s Office ordered the arrest of opposition candidate Edmundo González. charged with terrorism-related crimes.

It is not the first time that the Venezuelan President celebrates Christmas earlier in Venezuela. And in 2020, the celebrations started on October 15, as a distraction maneuver in the face of the serious problems the country was going through during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Maduro wanted to recall what happened last Friday, August 30, when a massive power outage affected about 80% of Venezuela’s territory. The authorities attributed the collapse of the electricity system to their political opponents. However, the President declared: “People continued to work and with the support of the working class, in a perfect civil-military-police cooperation, we guaranteed absolute peace.”

After that, Maduro added: “Christmas starts on October 1st. To all, Christmas has come, with peace, happiness and security.” It is expected that the government, as it usually does during the weeks before the end of the year holidays, will intensify the distribution of aid and bags of food in the neighborhoods.

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