MADRID, 31 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The family home of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will be converted into a museum dedicated to the former president, considered the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution.
“In honor of Commander Chávez, on the instructions of President Nicolás Maduro, we met in what was the home of the Chávez Frías family in the Rodríguez Domínguez de Barinas urbanization to activate its immediate remodeling and musealization,” the Minister of Defense explained on Twitter. Communes and Social Movements, Jorge Arreaza.
This past July 28 marked the 68th anniversary of the birth of Chávez in Barinas. “Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, peasant boy, baseball teenager, young soldier, insurgent man, firm and loving leader, lamp of peoples and revolutions,” highlights Venezuelan public television, VTV.
On February 4, 1992, he led an attempted coup against the government. He was jailed for two years and then launched a political campaign that led to his victory in the 1998 presidential election.
He immediately promoted the call for a National Constituent Assembly that drafted the current Constitution and spent 14 years in power during which the opposition denounced persecution and the United States imposed sanctions. In 2002 he suffered a failed coup and passed away on March 5, 2013.
