Venezuela’s government announced Thursday that late president Hugo Chavez’s body is to be embalmed and displayed inside a glass coffin at a military museum not far from the country’s presidential palace, Miraflores. This sort of prominent public display not only of a dead leader’s final resting place, but of the dead leader’s preserved corpse, places Chavez in the company of revolutionary leaders such as Lenin and Mao, North Korea’s dictatorial father-and-son team, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and others. Here, TIME takes a look at a number of world leaders whose remains have been placed on perpetual display down through the years.
Hugo Chavez and Other Dead World Leaders on Display
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Imelda Marcos beside the glass coffin of her husband, the late Philippines strongman Ferdinand Marcos, at Marcos Mausoleum in 1996. Marcos died in exile in Hawaii in 1986. His body was brought home in 1993.