"Mr Chavez said Halloween was part of the US culture"
Well, he's right on that (though
banning it is absurd). Halloween and St Valentine's Day are both US customs virtually unheard of outside US borders as little as 15 years ago (like...when
I was a kid) that are spreading like hellfire - and being promoted like there's no tomorrow, because there's money to be made in them (but also, in part, with no bad intentions at all, with all the US movies and tv series and stuff) - and I, for one, am having none of it.