In the “Maduro Live De Repente” (Suddenly Maduro Live) program, the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, and the Head of Government of the Capital District, Nahúm Fernández, reported on the festivities to welcome Christmas and celebrate the four months of the great consolidated victory, of the electoral process carried out last July.
President Maduro detailed that there will be a great party “with drums and thousands and thousands of UBCH, chiefs of the streets, of the communities of Petare, will come out.»
Speaking about the celebration, he indicated: «The stage will be there where the statue of José Martí is in Chacaíto (Caracas), that will be a party on the entire Francisco de Miranda Avenue and it will last all morning, all afternoon and then comes the salsa concert: Salsa takes Caracas.»
The Head of State, in his speech, highlighted that next Sunday, December 1, «the people will go to the streets with drums, to party, to the Christmas carols and to celebrate.»
Along these lines, he mentioned that there will be more than a thousand parties and mobilizations throughout the country, highlighting that these Christmas advances have been the solution to confront those who want to do harm:
«The advance of Christmas that we have done in many years has been impressive and that it has been a vaccine against the conspiracy, against all that anti-Christian, anti-Christmas, violent current, those currents of the grinch,» he said.
For his part, Nahúm Fernández complemented the information by mentioning that in the early hours «We go out to the Christmas carol mass that will be given at 5 a.m. in different squares,» after inviting the population to join this ecumenical prayer.
«At nine in the morning we go to the party, at ten a.m. the popular caravans start. Very beautiful things,» said Fernandez, who also mentioned that there will be plays and stilt walkers at the celebration.
During this broadcast, President Nicolas Maduro detailed that «more than 10,000 motorcyclists will tour the Greater Caracas with drums, with joy, Christmas carols, partying.»
He also recalled past attempts to sabotage Christmas in the country, referring to events in 2002 and praising the reaction of the Venezuelan people to these adversities:
“But our people fought hard and on December 24, 2002, we were in the streets mobilized giving our embrace of Baby Jesus (…) Carlos Ortega, who participated in destabilizing events in 2002, who then got involved in the destabilization of October, November, December 2002 and was the head in January, February, March of 2003, and he is the famous one who said: “This year there will be no hallacas, there will be no Christmas, we will eat them at carnival”, he said that, they did it, the same ones, the same ones who now follow the Sayona(*)”, he stressed.
(*): “La Sayona” is the name of a popular Venezuelan Folklore character, described as a ghoulish woman, a mother screaming for her lost sons…
