Venezuelan dictator deploys bizarre distraction as country remains in turmoil after election [Video]

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has announced his plan to move Christmas to October in a bid to distract the public from ongoing political turmoil following the disputed presidential election.

“It’s more evidence that he is desperate to distract people from the fraud he committed on Election Day and the horrible repression we’ve seen in the month since,” Daniel Acosta Rivas, an OSINT analyst from Venezuela, told Fox News Digital. 

“It’s not enough that he oppresses us, he also has to mock us,” Rivas said. “Just like he can declare himself winner of the election without evidence, on a whim he can decree that Jesus was born on Oct. 1 and that’s when we should celebrate. He is desperate, or he is mocking us – or both.”

Maduro made the bizarre announcement during his weekly …