Hugo’s mummy
Since Hugo Chávez’s corpse will be embalmed and placed in a glass casket on permanent display so “our people can have him forever,” as Nicolás Maduro put it, the Venezuelan government is going to need Russian help, since,
“the Russian technologies for embalmment are absolutely first-rate.”
Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants at your service, comrades!
The down side is that the process takes six months and Hugo would be out of the public eye for that period.
In other Venezuelan news, ‘Baseball diplomacy’ strikes out in Venezuela
Despite mutual love for the ballgame, US attempts to use baseball to better relations with Venezuela have not succeeded.
Relations may not have improved among the two countries, but Wikipedia lists 100 + Venezuelans active in US Major League Baseball teams. Those relations are working just fine, thanks.
Tags: Fausta's blog, Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
March 13th, 2013 at 9:35 am
“the Russian technologies for embalmment are absolutely first-rate.”
Just ask Vladimir Ilich Lenin.
How about an American technique: flash-freeze and shrink-wrap?
March 13th, 2013 at 10:40 pm
just be thankful that they admit that he’s actually, permanently dead and not just resting.