They removed images and symbols of the former Argentine president from the room inaugurated in 2011 by Chávez and Cristina.
Over the years, the room was used for official meetings and government activities, maintaining an aesthetic marked by the presence of images of Kirchner with Chávez, as well as photographs with other regional leaders and historical references. Even in December 2025, in records where Nicolás Maduro appeared, paintings, phrases and symbols associated with the former Argentine president could still be seen
The vice-president and president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, moved forward with the dismantling of the so-called “Néstor Kirchner Hall” in the Miraflores Palace, a meeting room that for more than a decade functioned as a symbol of the political link between Chavism and Kirchnerism.
The measure involved the removal of images, objects and references to the former Argentine president, modifying one of the most representative internal spaces of that phase of alignment between Caracas and Buenos Aires. According to official records released by the Venezuelan government itself, the room stopped displaying portraits, phrases and elements linked to Kirchner that had remained there
until the end of 2025.
The space was inaugurated on December 1, 2011, as part of an official visit by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to Venezuela. On that day, the then Argentine president held a bilateral meeting with Hugo Chávez at the Miraflores Palace, after which both led the opening ceremony of the hall
.During that ceremony, Chávez vindicated the figure of the former Argentine president and celebrated the gesture as part of the political relationship between the two governments. For his part, Fernández de Kirchner thanked the tribute and defined it as a sign of recognition, highlighting the symbolic burden of space inside the headquarters of the Venezuelan Executive
However, at the beginning of 2026, changes began to be seen. In an image released on January 4, corresponding to a meeting led by Rodríguez, the elements linked to Kirchner or Argentina were no longer there.
Instead, there were only images of Chávez, of Maduro with Cilia Flores and of Simon Bolivar.
March, new images showed a more profound redesign of the space: the elements associated with Argentina completely disappeared and the living room had white walls, with a more neutral aesthetic and without references to
the old homage.The removal in April of the symbols linked to Néstor Kirchner marks a shift in the political use of space in Miraflores and reflects a symbolic reorganization of the Venezuelan government, which leaves behind one of the emblems of its closeness to Kirchnerism.
