CHRISTMAS Day has been moved to three weeks away as madcap dictator aims to “bring joy” to his people.

Venezuela’s tyrant President Nicolás Maduro – who is in Donald Trump’s crosshairs – has ordered the festive period to kick off on October 1.

This is the second year in a row that he has made Christmas come early, and a bizarre fourth time in his term, and comes as the US threatens his regime for supporting ruthless drug cartels.

Eleven “narco-terrorist” drug traffickers were killed in the Caribbean Sea during a cold-blooded US strike on a boat, which had set off from Venezuela , the White House said.

“No one and nothing in this world will take away our right to happiness, to life, and to joy”, Maduro decreed in his Christmas announcement.

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