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Chavez calls for ban on Halloween

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Monday October 31, 2005 12:23author by pat c Report this post to the editors

I'm starting to worry about Hugo...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged families not to mark Halloween, calling it a US custom alien to the South American nation.
"Families go and begin to disguise their children as witches. This is contrary to our way," Mr Chavez said during his weekly radio and TV show.

He also said Halloween was a "game of terror", the AP news agency reported.

Mr Chavez is known as a fierce critic of the US government and President George W Bush personally.


Halloween is marked by children dressing up in scarey costumes
The president recently described the Bush administration as a terrorist government.

Mr Chavez said Halloween was part of the US culture of "putting fear into other nations, putting fear into their own people".

He did not refer to incidents earlier this month when lanterns made from hollowed pumpkins carrying anti-government messages appeared in several places in the capital, Caracas

Halloween, a pagan festival characterised by mischiefmaking, is marked every year on 31 October.

Related Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4391166.stm
author by :-)publication date Mon Oct 31, 2005 13:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Hallowe'en and the day of the dead celebrations in mexico and wherever mexicans go is sort of universal. Of course yankee tv gets particularly gringo nasty
check out this site for good photos of the mexican thing. I you meet dead relatives today be nice to them.
http://www.dayofthedead.com/

author by Duinepublication date Mon Oct 31, 2005 16:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Seo deis ag Éirinn a chultúr a craobhscaoileadh le "Oíche Shamhna" Ghaelach a mholadh in ionad "Halloween" Mheiriceá!!!

 
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