Re: Chavez vs Halloween
Kevin Robert Dean wrote:
Chavez: Halloween part of U.S. culture of terror
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez urged Venezuelan parents not to dress their children in costumes for Halloween, calling it a U.S. custom that has no place in the South American country’s cultural traditions.
Speaking during his weekly radio and television show Sunday, Chavez called Halloween a “gringa,” or North American, custom. “Families go and begin to disguise their children as witches,” Chavez said.
“That is contrary to our ways.”
Weird. Richard Gott has a passage in his book on Chavez on how he draws on millennarian Protestant fundamentalism which has grown in influence in Venezuela. Wonder if this is related in any way.
Doug