CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- With a nod to Christmas cheer, Venezuela's politicians are reveling -- and railing -- in a sometimes sour twist on holiday season carols called "gaitas." ...

“There were two very notable things about Christmas in Zulia that I immediately became aware of: the temperature (around 90 degrees) and La Gaita Zuliana,” writes Jennifer Woodard Maderazo about the ...

On the street corners of Caracas, seasonal songs known as gaitas ring out in praise - and protest - of the government. Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to search Skip to footer.

Complete Information About Christmas song in Venezuela at Teatro Escena 8. Scrooge is a miserly and lonely old whose bitterness becomes more latent at the time of Christmas. Before Eve, his late ...

While Nicolás Maduro moved Christmas up in Venezuela to Oct. 1, a gaita — the quintessential music genre for the holidays in the South American country — makes use of a speech by opposition ...

While Nicolás Maduro moved Christmas up in Venezuela to Oct. 1, a gaita — the quintessential music genre for the holidays in the South American country — makes use of a speech by opposition ...

The air fills with the rolling, robust rhythms of gaita—the folk Christmas music inspired in part by one of Venezuela’s patron saints, the Virgin of Chinquinquirá, or “La Chinita”—as ...

For The Sake Of Happiness, Venezuela's Maduro Moves Up Christmas : The Two-Way President Nicolas Maduro made the announcement a week after he appointed a minister of happiness and just days after ...

(CNN) — Christmas will start next month in Venezuela, authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro has decreed – even as thousands of Venezuelans look set to pass the holidays behind bars amid his ...