The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, denied this Thursday that there will be a concert in a Caracas stadium next Sunday for his 63rd birthday and that it was a joke that many people believed because, he said, Venezuelans like the “bochinche (party).”
“Because people like it, it’s a joke, everyone believed it (…) you can’t imagine, Delcy (Rodríguez), the number of messages and calls I have received from Venezuelan artists, Venezuelan music, salsa, rock, reggaeton, of all ages and musicians from other parts of the world who sent me the message: ‘Tell me what time I have to be there to go sing at the Monumental,'” the president said at an event by the Constituent Congress of the Working Class, broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).
Maduro joked that he received a call from the American singer Taylor Swift and the Puerto Rican Bad Bunny that, he added, he could not answer.
The president said that on Sunday people should concentrate “solely and exclusively” on going to vote in the popular consultation in which the 5,336 communal circuits in the country will choose community projects that will be financed by the State.
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In addition, he stated that his birthday celebration will be the blessing that the people send him.
“Wherever they want, they have a tortica (a cake) in my name and they have a guarapita (a sweet homemade drink with liquor) and have a little dance, so the Monumental will be throughout the country,” he added.
This Thursday, Maduro published a video on Telegram in which he announced that he would celebrate his birthday with a concert at the Monumental Simón Bolívar stadium, in the Venezuelan capital, a structure with capacity for about 40,000 people.
The Venezuelan president turns 63 next Sunday, November 23, a date that coincides with the fourth popular consultation organized by Chavismo to choose communal projects that will be financed by the State.
The celebration of this popular consultation and its birthday occurs in the midst of tensions with the United States, which maintains a military deployment in the Caribbean Sea under the argument of combating drug trafficking and which the Venezuelan Government sees as a “threat” that seeks to promote a change of regime.
Last Sunday, the US State Department announced that starting Monday, November 24, it will designate the Cartel of the Suns, a group that Washington links to Maduro, as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).
With information from EFE
