Hugo Chavez's office 'to become museum'
Baku, April 10 (AZERTAC). Venezuela's acting president Nicolas Maduro says he will turn the office where the late President Hugo Chavez worked into a museum.
Mr Maduro said the room would be kept intact and a wing of the presidential palace turned into a monument to Mr Chavez's "Bolivarian revolution".
Mr Chavez died of cancer last month.
Following his death, presidential elections were called for 14 April, pitting Mr Maduro against main opposition candidate Henrique Capriles.
Mr Capriles says that despite Mr Maduro's attempt at portraying himself as Mr Chavez's heir, the acting president lacks the late leader's charisma.
"I'm going to look after it for a few years, but it'll always be Chavez's home," Mr Maduro said referring to the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, where Venezuela's presidents have their office.
Full of confidence ahead of Sunday's polls, Mr Maduro said he would "occupy a small office in Miraflores in another wing", so that Venezuelans could roam the rooms of the presidential palace and "learn how the commander had lived, and what he had eaten".
Fierce battle
Since Mr Chavez died on 5 March, Mr Maduro has cast himself as his natural successor in office.
He has called himself "Chavez's son" and said that the late president had appeared to him in the form of a little bird.
Speaking last week at the official start of the presidential campaign in the house where Mr Chavez was born, Mr Maduro said a small bird had flown around him three times and looked at him "oddly", at which point he he had felt in his soul it was a message from Mr Chavez.
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