Venezuela: Hugo Chávez’s family’s house will become a museum

Former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s family’s house will become a museum.

“In honor of Commander Chávez, on the instructions of President Nicolás Maduro, we have gathered in the former house of the Chávez Frías family in the Rodríguez Domínguez housing estate in Barinas to activate its immediate transformation and museumization,” said the Minister of Communities and Social Movements, Jorge Arreaza, on Twitter.

July 28 marked the 68th anniversary of Chávez’s birth in Barinas. “Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, peasant boy, youthful baseball player, young soldier, rebel, determined and loving leader, the light of peoples and revolutions,” highlights Venezuelan public television VTV.

On February 4, 1992, Chávez led an attempted coup against the government. He was imprisoned for two years and then launched a political campaign that led to his victory in the 1998 presidential election.

He immediately pushed for convening a constituent assembly that drafted the current constitution and was in power for 14 years. During that time, the opposition denounced persecution, and the United States imposed sanctions. In 2002, he survived a failed coup d’état and reportedly died in Caracas on March 5, 2013.

With information from Latina Press