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"I consider myself a blessed president. We have a blessed people and a blessed homeland." Nicolás Maduro lives an explosion of religiosity in times of pandemic, which has even led him to see divine messages in the sky of Caracas on the occasion of the solar halo that Palm Sunday illuminated the Venezuelan capital and also to remember the "miracles" of the Nazarene of Saint Paul during the scurvy epidemic of four centuries ago.

The revolutionary chief contacted his vice presidents, habitual spokesmen during the Covid-19 crisis, during a television broadcast, to show them a "heavenly manifestation", a cloud in the form of a dove, captured by a friend, "a person very full of light and very intuitive ": " Look at that photo so you can see, then they speak ill of me . I do believe in God and in these things. You are looking at the photo, you see how it has the shape of a dove. Look at that, there it is God".

"It is a clear message to our people, we are protected by the divine blessing, by the blessing of God," stressed the "president people," who has spent seven years listening to the "bird" that symbolized Hugo Chávez to see " doves "as messages of peace from beyond.

"I am impressed and excited by the great power of God, manifested in heaven. He gives hope that it comes with the miracle of life and peace," added the 'son of Chávez' who in parallel, and already on earth , has ordered the deployment of anti-aircraft batteries "for the fight for peace" and has redoubled the terror plan against opponents, journalists and health personnel.

Among the victims is the Spanish-Venezuelan Demóstenes Quijada, key advisor to Juan Guaidó . Maduro has also accused without any proof the "Guaidosista mafia" of being behind the murder of a revolutionary commander in the Arco Minero, a territory in dispute between the local underworld, the Chavista paramilitaries and the Colombian guerrillas.

Since the 'supreme commander' began his agony, the revolution has tried unsuccessfully to impose a semi-religious cult on his figure with the aim of transferring his charisma and popular support to his heir. A strategy floated on various occasions during the seven years of Maduro's government, which these days celebrates the Catholic processions of the Nazarene, limited by the epidemic, when earlier this year he had revealed his closeness to the evangelicals, to whom he even promised a university. and a national bible day. The street demonstrations of Chavismo are mainly nurtured by state workers, militiamen, community leaders and members of the evangelical churches that support Maduro.

Maduro took the opportunity to remember the myth that surrounds this Jesus Christ who arrived from Seville in the 17th century. During an epidemic of black vomiting plague, his image was walked around the city. When passing through an orchard, a bunch of lemons was attached to his crown, becoming magical medicine for the sick , according to legend. As if the current pandemic required another miracle to protect Venezuela. "Listen to your children, father!" Maduro cried directly to the Nazarene in San Pablo.

A change of a third that surprisingly brought the Chavista leader closer to the Catholic clergy, the most prestigious institution in society for its constant fight against the revolution. Instead, members of his government accused Monsignor Baltazar Porras of maintaining the procession at risk for "the health of the parishioners in order to impose their pseudo-religious and openly criminal agenda."

The redoubled faith of the 'driver of victories', as Bolivarian propaganda calls him, has even led him to present the last Easter voucher, awarded by his government to the "patriots" (three dollars per person), armed with a crucifix with which you touch your forehead.

A syncretic philosophy that moves between evangelicals and Catholics, despite the fact that Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores , like Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo , wife of the leader Daniel Ortega , militated among the followers of the controversial Indian guru Sai Baba . Considered a "living god" by his own, he died in 2011 on charges of sexual abuse and inventing miracles.

The costly Afro-Cuban santero rites that the revolutionary chief orders from the Miraflores Palace are also known.

"They kill Jesus Christ for being anti-imperialist, for facing the Roman empire with all his being, his word. They kill him for being an anti-oligarchic," Maduro explained in one of his frequent television addresses. "He is the historical Christ, the fighting Christ. He is the son of God, a revolutionary," the president harangued.

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