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despite mounting pressure from the International Community and ongoing protests from the opposition Maduro remains defiant with his grip on power but as discontent simmers across the country the Venezuelan president has found a peculiar way to distract the populace from the turmoil he's declared the early arrival of Christmas yes in a move that seems straight out of a political Playbook the embattled president announced on a television show that the holiday season will begin on October 1st

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