 When the Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency in 2008, he used "Sí se puede"—translated into English as "Yes we can"—as one of his main campaign slogans.When Obama was seeking re-election in 2012, he visited Chavez's grave and placed a rose upon it, also declaring his Union Headquarters to be a national monument.Chavez's work has continued to exert influence on later activists.