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A mural of Venezuela's late President Hugo decorates a wall in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. In the battles Chavez waged at home and abroad, he captivated his base by championing Venezuela's poor. "This is the path: the hard, long path, filled with doubts, filled with errors, filled with bitterness, but this is the path," Chavez told his backers in 2011. "The path is this: socialism." Tomorrow, the country will mark the second anniversary of Chavez's death. Chavez died at age 58 on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)![Venezuela_Chavez_Phot_Garc__10_]()
A mural of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez covers a wall in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. During more than 14 years in office, his leftist politics and grandiose style polarized Venezuelans. The barrel-chested leader electrified crowds with his booming voice, and won admiration among the poor with government social programs and a folksy, nationalistic style. Tomorrow, the country will mark the second anniversary of Chavez's death. Chavez died at age 58 on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)![Venezuela_Chavez_Anni_Garc__1_]()
Images of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez are surrounded by religious iconography inside a small chapel in the 23 de Enero neighborhood of Caracas, March 4, 2015. Before his struggle with cancer, the charismatic leader appeared on television almost daily, speaking for hours and breaking into song or philosophical discourse. He often wore the bright red of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela, or the fatigues and red beret of his army days the same uniform he donned in 1992 while leading an ill-fated coup attempt that first landed him in jail and then launched his political career. Tomorrow, the country will mark the second anniversary of Chavez's death. Chavez died at age 58 on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)![APTOPIX_Venezuela_Cha_Garc]()
A mural of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez smiling from a hammock decorates a wall in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. In 2007, Chavez said he felt a deep connection to the plains where he grew up, and that when died he hoped to be buried in the savanna. "A man from the plains, from these great open spaces ... tends to be a nomad, tends not to see barriers. What you see is the horizon," Chavez said. Tomorrow, the country will mark the second anniversary of Chavez's death. Chavez died at age 58 on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)![Venezuela_Chavez_Phot_Garc__8_]()
A picture of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez riding a bicycle covers a wall in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Chavez burst into public view in 1992 as a paratroop commander leading a military rebellion that brought tanks to the presidential palace. When the coup collapsed, Chavez was allowed to make a televised statement in which he declared that his movement had failed "for now." The speech, and those two defiant words, launched his career, searing his image into the memory of Venezuelans. Tomorrow, the country will mark the second anniversary of Chavez's death. Chavez died at age 58 on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)![Venezuela_Chavez_Phot_Garc__5_]()
A mural of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez covers a wall in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. In 2002, Chavez survived a short-lived coup, which began after large anti-Chavez street protests ended in shootings and bloodshed. Dissident military officers detained the president and announced he had resigned. But within two days, he returned to power with the help of military loyalists amid massive protests by his supporters. Tomorrow, the country will mark the second anniversary of Chavez's death. Chavez died at age 58 on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)![Venezuela_Chavez_Phot_Garc__3_]()
A street mural of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez shows him in his youth in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. The son of schoolteachers, he rose from poverty in a dirt-floor, mud-walled house, a "humble soldier" in the battle for socialism. He fashioned himself after 19th-century independence leader Simon Bolivar and renamed his country the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Tomorrow, the country will mark the second anniversary of Chavez's death. Chavez died at age 58 on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)![Venezuela_Chavez_Phot_Garc__6_]()
A mural of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez covers on a wall in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Chavez exerted himself for one final election campaign in 2012 after saying tests showed he was cancer-free, and defeated younger challenger Henrique Capriles. With another six-year term in hand, he promised to keep pressing for revolutionary changes. Tomorrow, the country will mark the second anniversary of Chavez's death. Chavez died at age 58 on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)![Venezuela_Chavez_Phot_Garc__9_]()
A defaced mural of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez covers a wall in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. In 2002, Chavez survived a short-lived coup and defeated an opposition-led strike that paralyzed the country's oil industry and fired thousands of state oil company employees. The coup also turned Chavez more decidedly against the U.S. government, which had swiftly recognized the provisional leader who briefly replaced him. Tomorrow, the country will mark the second anniversary of Chavez's death. Chavez died at age 58 on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)![Venezuela_Chavez_Phot_Garc__4_]()
A mural of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez covers a wall in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Critics saw Chavez as a typical Latin American caudillo, a strongman who ruled through force of personality and showed disdain for democratic rules. He concentrated power in his hands with allies who dominated the congress and justices who controlled the Supreme Court. Tomorrow, the country will mark the second anniversary of Chavez's death. Chavez died at age 58 on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)![Venezuela_Chavez_Phot_Garc__7_]()
A mural of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez covers a wall in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias was born on July 28, 1954, in the rural town of Sabaneta in Venezuela's western plains, the son of schoolteachers and the second of six brothers. He was raised by his grandmother, Rosa Ines, in a home with a dirt floor, mud walls and a roof made of palm fronds. Tomorrow, the country will mark the second anniversary of Chavez's death. Chavez died at age 58 on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)![Venezuela_Chavez_Phot_Garc__11_]()
People ride on a public bus past a street mural of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Chavez was a master communicator and savvy political strategist, and managed to turn his struggle against cancer into a rallying cry, until the illness finally defeated him. Tomorrow, the country will mark the second anniversary of Chavez's death. Chavez died at age 58 on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)![Venezuela_Chavez_Phot_Garc__1_]()
A mural representing the eyes of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez decorate a wall in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Chavez used his country's oil wealth to launch social programs that included state-run food markets, new public housing, free health clinics and education programs. Tomorrow, the country will mark the second anniversary of Chavez's death. Chavez died at age 58 on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)Hugo Chavez murals are everywhere in Venezuela
Two years after his death, murals of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez still cover walls all over the country, especially in the capital.
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