>Chavez: Halloween part of U.S. culture of terror
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>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.
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>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.
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>"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