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Venezuela celebrates Christmas early under Maduro's orders amid election fight

Venezuelans woke up to find a Christmas tree standing tall in downtown Caracas on Oct. 1, marking the start of a new holiday season. This early celebration comes at the direction of President Nicolás Maduro, who is at the center of claims regarding a stolen election. The government decorated streets and buildings in the capital with Christmas decorations, urging citizens to move past the election drama and embrace a message of “peace, happiness,…

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In Venezuela, the authoritarian President Maduro has brought Christmas forward - as a "thank you to the fighting people". But not everyone is in the holiday spirit in times of crisis. By Anne Demmer.

·Hamburg, Germany
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To the displeasure of the Catholic Church, ruler Maduro is having Christmas celebrated for weeks. He wants to use this to distract from the obvious electoral fraud.

·Frankfurt, Germany
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The worlds of Maduro are sometimes surreal. So much so that the Venezuelan president declared the start of Christmas in the South American country in October, reports Efe. And not only...

·Madrid, Spain
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Christmas began this Tuesday in Venezuela, with official events in Caracas and several regions of the country, after President Nicolás Maduro decreed the “advance” of this season, for which several public spaces have been decorated with lights and images typical of the festivity. With a countdown, the mayor of Caracas, Carmen Meléndez, led the traditional lighting of a cross that is located in the Waraira Repano, the main mountain formation of t…

·Mexico
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In Venezuela, Christmas began to be celebrated starting this Tuesday, by decision of President Nicolás Maduro, in the midst of the political and social crisis that the country is suffering after the controversial elections of last July 28. The Chavista regime worked hard during September to decorate shops, streets and avenues in Caracas and the rest of the cities of that nation, and to start the Christmas festivities long before the usual date i…

·Chile
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WPLG broke the news in Miami, United States on Tuesday, October 1, 2024.
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