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Maduro declares Christmas in October amid Venezuela’s post-election strife

Maduro declares Christmas in October amid Venezuela’s post-election strife

Authoritarian president moves up holiday celebrations yet again to apparently distract from political crisis

“Whatever happened to Christmas?” Frank Sinatra once asked. In Venezuela, the answer is that it has been brought forward to October.

The country’s strongman president, Nicolás Maduro, made the curious announcement that this year’s festivities would begin in October on Monday, in the midst of a political bleak midwinter for his crisis-stricken land.

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