Hugo Chavez unlikely to be embalmed: Nicolas Maduro
15 March 2013 7:47 AM IST
For many Venezuelans, the late Hugo Chavez is deeply etched in their minds and souls. But plans for them to be able to view him in perpetuity may have gone awry.
The process of embalming his remains specially so that he could be viewed like Lenin started too late, acting President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday.
Scientists from around the world and countries like Russia and Germany have been summoned and the news is not good, Maduro said.
The government had said it wanted Chavez’s supporters to be able to visit the late standard-bearer of the Latin American left forever in the wake of his 5 March death from cancer after 14 years in power.
The reason is that ‘preparatory steps would have to have been taken much earlier,’ Maduro said. ‘The decision would have to have been made much earlier.
‘So I have the duty to report on these steps so that everyone knows that there are difficulties that could make it impossible to do what was done with Lenin, Ho Chi Minh or Mao Zedong,’ Maduro added.
Maduro said that he got the idea from his love of Chavez – and from presidents who came from other countries and suggested the late leader be preserved for permanent viewing.
The process of embalming his remains specially so that he could be viewed like Lenin started too late, acting President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday.
Scientists from around the world and countries like Russia and Germany have been summoned and the news is not good, Maduro said.
The government had said it wanted Chavez’s supporters to be able to visit the late standard-bearer of the Latin American left forever in the wake of his 5 March death from cancer after 14 years in power.
The reason is that ‘preparatory steps would have to have been taken much earlier,’ Maduro said. ‘The decision would have to have been made much earlier.
‘So I have the duty to report on these steps so that everyone knows that there are difficulties that could make it impossible to do what was done with Lenin, Ho Chi Minh or Mao Zedong,’ Maduro added.
Maduro said that he got the idea from his love of Chavez – and from presidents who came from other countries and suggested the late leader be preserved for permanent viewing.
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