President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has announced plans to move Christmas to October as a way to distract attention from continued political tumult in the country following the electoral crisis.
Daniel Acosta Rivas, an OSINT expert in Venezuela, described to Fox News Digital: “It is more proof that he’s desperate to divert the people from the fraud he committed on Election Day and the horrible repression we’ve seen in the month since.”
“It’s not enough that he oppresses us, he also has to mock us,” Rivas remarked. “On a whim, he may decide that Jesus was born on October 1 and that’s when we should celebrate, just as he can declare himself the election victor without providing any proof. Either he is mocking us or he is desperate, or both.”
During his weekly televised address on Monday, Maduro made the unusual remark, referring to the choice as a “tribute” to the Venezuelan people.
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“It’s September, and it already smells like Christmas,” Maduro stated. “That’s why this year, as a way of paying tribute to you all, and in gratitude to you all, I’m going to decree an early Christmas for October 1.”
With his strategy, Maduro provoked the exact opposite happiness than he had wanted. “Without money and with his political crisis, who can believe that there will be an early Christmas?” a Caracas office worker said The Associated Press.
President of the Economic Inclusion Group and Venezuelan foreign policy expert Jorge Jraissati told Fox News Digital that while he was “tempted to believe that Maduro’s irrational mind urged him to start Christmas in October,” he also acknowledged that he could not “deny that stories like this portray Maduro as an idiotic character, refocusing people’s attention from the real problems of our country: the fact that our political institutions are hijacked, our economy is destroyed, and millions of people have left our country seeking a normal life.”
The news also comes after Maduro’s decision to seek an arrest warrant for his rival, Edmundo Gonzalez, who the world community still believes is the real election victor on July 28 despite Maduro and his party’s insistence to the contrary.
