Venezuela, pres. Maduro encourages trade initiative for Christmas season

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*Squares and public institutions to be decorated with Christmas themes *Christmastime heralds the arrival of Venezuelan gastronomic traditions *Increasing consumption capacity is one of the challenges

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00:00And the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro,

00:02informed that the country is already

00:04preparing for Christmas, encouraging

00:06the initiatives of commerce and the population in general.

00:09Let's go to the details.

00:14Stores are slowly starting to get

00:17ready for the holiday season.

00:19This retail, decoration, and houseware store

00:22already has all the trimmings.

00:24On the streets, the mood is beginning to lift.

00:29Ayacas, pan de jamón, whatever.

00:32We enjoy it.

00:37As we do every year, saving a little bit

00:39to be able to celebrate in December.

00:42As in previous years, the president of Venezuela

00:45announced that as of October the 1st,

00:46all public squares and institutions

00:48will go into Christmas mode.

00:52It smells like Christmas, and that is why this year,

00:55in homage to you, in gratitude to you,

00:58I am going to decree that Christmas will be brought

01:00forward to October 1st.

01:02Christmas begins on October 1st for all of us.

01:07Christmas arrived with peace, happiness, and security.

01:16Christmas is one of the favorite times of the Venezuelan people.

01:20The gaitas, traditional music, announce its arrival,

01:23and all the culinary traditions are activated.

01:26Ayacas, torada, negra, and pan de jamón, among others,

01:29each bakery or home baker has its own recipe.

01:36We give ourselves the pleasure of making it the way we want it.

01:40As such, at home, we can add more, less.

01:43We made it in different ways, with malt, without malt,

01:46according to your taste, your palate.

01:52On the streets, merchants and citizens

01:54prepare with products and offers for the end of the year.

01:59I think it is very good, because this way we

02:01will be able to advance little by little

02:03for that date in December.

02:08We are encouraged, waiting for the best month for the sale,

02:11the best month, waiting to put the promotions,

02:13so that people are encouraged, buy their new clothes,

02:16waiting for that month with eagerness.

02:20One of the challenges for the last months of the year

02:23is to increase consumption capacity, which

02:25would also increase the figures for trade and other items.

02:31Oil is Venezuela's main export item.

02:34It is the one that in some way continues to leverage

02:37the Venezuelan economy.

02:40Nevertheless, in Venezuela today,

02:42there are already other non-oil products

02:44that have begun to be exported from Venezuela.

02:48We can talk about coffee, cocoa, and other items,

02:51including seafood products.

02:54We are strengthening the industry in Venezuela

02:57for exports.

02:58This is a change of model.

03:03The Venezuelan economy is preparing

03:05to finish off the year, in line with the good figures

03:08it has been showing, with over 8% growth,

03:11the highest in the region.

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