“Because he is not gone, here he is, and his legacy lives on, and we walk with that legacy in Latin America, of dignity, of national liberation,” Co-President Rosario Murillo told Citizen Power press.

She added that Chavez will also be celebrated at the technical centers of this Central American nation, several of which bear the Venezuelan leader’s name.

Nicaraguan Co-President Daniel Ortega once emphasized that Chavez looked out for the poorest peoples of the region, observed Central America and the Caribbean, and reached out to them to integrate them into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America to help them escape poverty.

Born on July 28, 1954, in Sabaneta, Venezuela, Chavez is considered one of the most influential politicians in the modern history of Venezuela and Latin America and the Caribbean.

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