“Run horse!”: This is how Christmas and New Year started in Venezuela, as ordered by dictator Nicolas Maduro
“September is coming and I said: ‘September and it already smells like Christmas”, the Venezuelan dictator said, Nicolas MaduroA month ago.
“And that’s why this year (…) I’m going to order early Christmas on October 1st, Christmas for everyone starts on October 1st“Christmas has come with peace, joy and security,” he said in a television program, amid deep turmoil in the country following fraud perpetrated by Chavismo in the July 28 elections.
October 1st arrived and so, “Maduro Christmas” begins in Venezuela this Tuesday,
After the announced preview, he confirmed this initiative with his appearance on television, where this Monday night he presented a choir singing carols. “Ride the horse” With his wife: “And with Cilia (by Cilia Flores, his wife), from October 1 to January 15, I tell you with this beautiful song that we are going to perform, I tell you from now on. .. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and see you on the road!”
Maduro then presented before the choir who prepared a traditional song that begins by repeating the verses “Run little horses, let’s go to Bethlehem / To see Mary and the child too.”
This is not the first time that the dictator has changed the calendar of festivals. However, on this occasion he did so just hours after an arrest warrant had been issued against the opponent. Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia And amid deep political crisisThe opposition standard-bearer would then eventually go into exile in Spain.
Since July 28, the day controversial presidential elections were held in Venezuela, Authorities have arrested more than twenty political leadersTo those who demonstrated peacefully and even minors,
leader of the opposition Maria Corina Machado She has gone into hiding since the arrest of party colleagues and associates, although she remains active on social networks and participates in virtual forums.
This Monday, the game popular will (VP), who directs leopoldo lopezDemanded freedom of former deputy freddy superlano Two months after his arrest, he denounced, saying that during that period he “denied his right to self-defense,
“On July 30, the dictatorship kidnapped our brother Freddy Superllano. It has been two months in which they have deprived him of his right to self-defence, as well as meeting his relatives.“, mentioned the training on the social network X.
The VP assured that Superlano is a “example of peaceful leadership “Who has suffered the consequences of fighting for an independent Venezuela.”
He added, “Know that we will not rest until you see her the way she was always meant to be free.”
Attorney General on 5 September, tarek william saabSuperlano linked with anti-Chavista perkins rocha And Biagio Pilieri – Also detained – with revelations of voting records published by main opposition coalition Democratic Unitary Forum (PUD).
Saab said the opponents, who have been detained in “(Bolivarian National Intelligence Service) Sabin”, are being “specially” investigated because they “supported”, “verified”, “disseminated” and “broadcasted” the website. Is “revealed as genuine”. Voting records that the PUD collected through witnesses and vote center members on Election Day, July 28.
He clarified that three Chavista opponents have been interviewed by the Public Ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office) for allegedly being committed.usurpation of functions,forgery of public document,incite disobedience to laws” And “conspiracy”, among other crimes.
Three opponents were arrested after the presidential election, the National Electoral Council announced ripeA result that has not been recognized by the majority opposition or many countries, which insist that he won. Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia,