In the immediate aftermath of the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, it is clear that the regime has settled on a way forward, and has now answered the question about how to go forward with a cult-of-personality regime when the principal personality has died.
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Which is, to say, that today we are witnessing the final transformation of Caracas into Pyongyang-of-the-Americas.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s acting head of state, said Thursday that Chavez’s body would be forever displayed inside a glass tomb at a military museum not far from the presidential palace from which the socialist firebrand ruled for 14 years.
“We have decided to prepare the body of our ‘Comandante President,’ to embalm it so that it remains open for all time for the people. Just like Ho Chi Minh. Just like Lenin. Just like Mao Zedong,” Maduro said.
Other socialist or communist leaders given similar treatments after dying are Russian dictator Josef Stalin, though his body was later removed, and North Korea’s father-and-son leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. But it was the famous display of Soviet founder Lenin in Moscow’s Red Square in 1924 that inspired the custom among leftist leaders.
Maduro said Chavez’s body would be held in a “crystal urn” at the Museum of the Revolution, a stone’s throw from Miraflores presidential palace, but that first the body would lie in state for “at least” seven days at the museum.
The play here is to elevate and equate Chavez’ status to that of Simón Bolívar, but the end result is rather Kim-like. The live feeds are replete with requisite public mourning. State-run TeleSur has a “Thank You Chavez feed”, where random people can come and thank Chávez for building their house or whatever. Over at the state funeral (live feed here), Chávez has just been proclaimed Supreme Leader of the Bolivarian Revolution. The North Koreanization of Venezuela is almost complete.
Caracas: Pyongyang-of-the-Americas
BY: JORGE BONILLA
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Which is, to say, that today we are witnessing the final transformation of Caracas into Pyongyang-of-the-Americas.
Per the Washington Post:
The play here is to elevate and equate Chavez’ status to that of Simón Bolívar, but the end result is rather Kim-like. The live feeds are replete with requisite public mourning. State-run TeleSur has a “Thank You Chavez feed”, where random people can come and thank Chávez for building their house or whatever. Over at the state funeral (live feed here), Chávez has just been proclaimed Supreme Leader of the Bolivarian Revolution. The North Koreanization of Venezuela is almost complete.