Oh wait fabi, it wasn't venezuela I read about, it was mexico :
+ Mexico's counterpart of April fool's day is actually observed on December 28. Originally, the day was a sad remembrance of the slaughter of the innocent children by King Herod. it eventually evolved into a lighter commemoration involving pranks and trickery.
top 10 april fool hoaxes of all time:
#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
In 1957 a respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from the trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in, and many called up wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. To this question, the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best". Check out the actual broadcast archived on the BBC's website.
#2: Sidd Finch
In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch and he could reportedly throw a baseball with startling, pinpoint accuracy at 168mph (65mph faster than anyone else has ever been to throw a ball). Surprisingly, Sidd Finch has never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa". Mets fans everywhere celebrated at their team's amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. But in reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the writer of the article, George Plimpton.
Too tired now, more to come..