CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — It’s been a year since former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death, yet it often seems the charismatic leader never left.

Chavez’s portrait in a red beret is still seen on buildings, pins, action-figure dolls and daily on television. National guard troops have used a recording of Chavez reciting poetry played at high volume to disperse protesters in Caracas. Even when the Chavez highlight reel isn’t playing, President Nicolas Maduro has been known to say he’s spotted the man who hand-picked him to lead the country in a little bird or a subway tunnel’s rock wall.