Christmas starts early in a lot of retail stores, but in Venezuela it's starting Oct. 1. NPR's Scott Simon explains.

The international community and most of the country’s population might be in an uproar amid allegations that he stole July’s ...

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Venezuela may be suffering from economic collapse and hyper-inflation, but Maduro knows how to distract and placate:  Decree ...

Christmas starts early in a lot of retail stores, but in Venezuela it's starting Oct. 1. NPR's Scott Simon explains. Opinion: Christmas is starting early in Venezuela Can you smell chestnuts ...

In Venezuela Christmas has been re-scheduled to come three months early after the country’s authoritarian president Nicolas Maduro decreed that it will be celebrated on October 1st. The move is widely ...

This week, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro declared on his weekly television show, “September smells like Christmas! ... I am going to decree the beginning of Christmas on Oct. 1.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The world’s attention ... President Nicolás Maduro decided there was a more important matter to discuss: Christmas and the need to kick off the jolly season a ...

but for strongman Nicolas Maduro Christmas has come early in Venezuela, so much so that he aims to decree its formal beginning for the first of October. “September is arriving and so I said it ...