Confirms government of Venezuela that Hugo Chavez will not be embalmed

The Venezuelan government has announced that it has ruled out the option of embalming the body of the late President Hugo Chavez after receiving the report of a medical committee notes that Russian to practice the procedure should remove the remains of the President of Russia for at least seven months . "The option was discarded embalming the body of Commander Chavez after the report of a Russian medical commission," wrote the Minister of Communications of Venezuela, Ernesto Villegas on his Twitter account. The minister also said, in the same way that a "Russian medical commission established that to practice the procedure, the body should be moved to Russia within 7 to 8 months." Finally, he reiterated that "after this report was discarded embalming, it was a heartfelt aspiration of many compatriots." The governing body was transferred Friday to the headquarters of the Mountain, where they took refuge when Chavez led a military coup in 1992, and will remain there until you decide the final burial place of his remains. On March 7, two days after the president died after fighting cancer for 20 months which was detected in mid-2011, the acting president, Nicolas Maduro announced that the fate of the body of Hugo Chavez would be an urn crystal in which embalmed remains "forever" for fans to see. He said then that the body would be taken to the Museum of the Revolution, in western Caracas, the first stop on his trip to the mausoleum to house his remains permanently. Meanwhile, supporters of the late head of state and leaders of his party, the United Socialist Venezuela (PSUV), had raised the possibility that Chavez was taken to the National Pantheon, where the remains of Simon Bolivar. However, the proposal would be done before the National Assembly constitutional amendment to take the remains to the Pantheon Chavez was postponed because the ruling party wants to study more "mechanisms" for that transfer.

• 2013-03-17T01:03:12+00:00
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