Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced on Thursday (15) the early start of Christmas celebrations in the country. This is not the first time he has anticipated the holidays, but the surprise was due to the deadline, more than two months before the official date, on December 25.
In 2013, Maduro had decreed that the celebrations would take place from November 1st, stating at the time that he wished “happiness and peace for the whole world” and “defeating bitterness”.
This year, he just announced that the celebrations would start this Thursday, in addition to saying that he released funds for the purchase of 10 million toys, which will be distributed to Venezuelan children through the Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP).
“We are going to guarantee children this Christmas and in the middle of a pandemic their gifts”, he said, informing that he approved special measures to stimulate the production of national toys and guarantee public purchases of products, in addition to measures to encourage the import of toys until December, as a reduction or exemption from taxes.
Maduro announced on Wednesday that Venezuela will reopen its tourist spaces “gradually” starting in December, under biosafety protocols against covid-19, after registering a “constant trend” of decreasing infections in the country, according to the agency France Hurry.
In a TV broadcast, he said that he ordered the gradual reopening of “tourist areas from December 1st through a strict biosafety protocol to stimulate the tourist sector at the end of 2020 and in celebration of the Christmas season”.
With 30 million inhabitants, the country has about 85,000 infected and 714 deaths from coronavirus, according to official data. Organizations like Human Rights Watch, however, question these figures.
Before the arrival of the pandemic in mid-March, when a national quarantine was decreed, still in force with some easing, Venezuelan tourism has already faced a “significant drop” in recent years, according to Leudo González, president of the Superior Council of Tourism from Venezuela.
Tourism is also hit by the collapse of aviation, following a massive exodus of airlines due to state debts of up to $ 3.8 billion, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
Paralyzed in March, commercial flights in Venezuela remain banned, a restriction extended this Monday until November 12.
Maduro also said he would authorize a “supervised general easing” of isolation at the right time, which will operate under sanitary standards and time bands.
Since June, a scheme has been in force in Venezuela that alternates seven days of “radical quarantine”, when all businesses are forced to close, except essential services, with seven days of “flexibility”, which allows the reactivation of activities.
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