Ortega and Castro go to Caracas to commemorate Chávez, their transcendental ally

• Ephemeris 10 years after the death of the 'supreme commander', Hugo Chávez

• Leadership Nicolás Maduro surfs the wave of regional change

Chavismo cleared the cobwebs just in time from what was its favorite anthem in other times,

, to accompany the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the "sowing of the giant."

Followers and friends came all day to the Cuartel de la Montaña, his mausoleum in the revolutionary stronghold, to remember Hugo Chávez, to whom most of the allies who have come to Caracas these days owe so much.

At the head, the Cuban Raúl Castro, 91, who does not like to travel abroad for almost no reason, and the Sandinista caudillo Daniel Ortega, 77, who once again exhibited his physical ailments.

The three dictatorships of Latin America reunited once again around the figure of the so-called

, who thanks to his Bolivarian dreams and the millions from oil strengthened and intertwined his roots in American lands.

Hence, the extensive Castro entourage, which also included the Prime Minister,

;

Foreign Minister

and Commander

.

"Commander Hugo Chávez continues to be

," stressed the host, Nicolás Maduro, who always evokes his political godfather when necessary, despite the fact that years ago he began a departure from his economic policies and propaganda: from the semi-religious cult of Chávez to the

.

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Chávez's icon has faded over time until it has become

, which refuses to associate him with the current catastrophe despite multiple evidences.

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Only the nostalgic joined yesterday, on a radiant Sunday, the events organized by the revolution, which dusted off slogans that seem from another century, such as "love is paid with love" or "Chávez lives, the country continues."

"Chávez sweated and fought to build the Great Homeland," recalled former Ecuadorian President

a few meters from his friend's coffin.

"

. Now the empire is defeated, how many socialist presidents do we have! They have been defeated by the peoples of Latin America," recited another former president, Bolivian Evo

, who he shared in the Venezuelan capital with his successor, President

, despite the harsh political confrontation between his two sides within the Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS).

Both Fidel and Chávez were instrumental in the cocalero unionist's first electoral victory in 2005.

also arrived from Honduras

, the husband of President

, a true strong man of the Government.

Chávez welcomed him after the 2009 coup, even giving him a public position in PetroCaribe while he supported the formation of his party.

Behind the guests, the proclamations and the fireworks stands out the reality of

and that has squandered more than the 980,000 million dollars received during Chávez's oil boom, which he left behind when he died. the minimum salary anchored in around 300 dollars.

Today it is close to

.

"The current regime raised Chávez to the political altars and with that bolstered the power of Maduro, but it was slow to shake off his long shadow, postponing

and the renewal of his government team. A labyrinth of compromises and betrayals for the that Maduro has advanced through trial and error, negotiation, force and coups, always having as his goal his consolidation as the only heir of Chávez, the eternal candidate of the revolution and a president with a genius and figure different from his predecessor," he concludes. for EL MUNDO the sociologist

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