The late Hugo Chavez's self-declared socialist revolution in Venezuela will be put to the test at a presidential election on Sunday.
It pits his chosen successor against a younger rival promising change in the nation he polarised.
Most opinion polls give his protege, acting President Nicolas Maduro, a strong lead over opposition challenger Henrique Capriles.
The candidates closed out official campaigning with dueling rallies, both drawing hundreds of thousands of boisterous supporters.
Taking a page out of Mr Chavez's playbook, a fiery Mr Maduro marched through the streets of the capital draped in a Venezuelan flag and called on voters to follow "Commander Chavez as the spiritual guide of the fatherland".
Venezuela's rival presidential candidates wrapped up their campaigns with huge rallies ahead of Sunday's election to replace the late president Hugo Chavez.
Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans turned out in support of both acting president Nicolas Maduro and opposition challenger Henrique Capriles.
Mr Maduro held his closing rally in the capital Caracas and was joined on stage by Argentine football legend Diego Maradona.
Mr Maradona was a friend and supporter of Chavez.
During his speech, Mr Maduro once again accused the opposition of conspiring to create unrest around election day.
Mr Maduro told supporters that authorities had captured "several Colombian paramilitaries" wearing Venezuelan soldiers' uniforms who allegedly "came here to kill in Venezuela."
Mr Maduro also said they found "explosives and weapons."
"We are dismantling a right-wing plot of violence," he said.
Mr Maduro has accused a Capriles campaign official of conspiring with mercenaries from El Salvador, who the acting president said had entered Venezuela with the aim of killing him and sabotaging the power grid to sow chaos.
Mr Capriles has called the accusations "contradictory and ridiculous."
Mr Maduro encouraged supporters to be "on high alert" during the election in case violence breaks out and accused the opposition of planning not to "recognise the election results."
As has become typical during the campaign, Mr Maduro made a reference to his claim last week that Chavez's spirit appeared to him in the form of a little bird that flew around his head.
The opposition has mocked Mr Maduro for the comment.
Mr Maduro has taken to beginning his speeches with imitations of a chirping bird, last night he had a real one on his shoulder.
Mr Maduro, a former bus driver who served as Chavez's foreign minister and vice president, is favoured to win Sunday's vote.
But a poll said his advantage had narrowed as Mr Capriles has drawn attention to government deficiencies in fighting crime, chronic food shortages, double-digit inflation and worsening power outages.
Mr Capriles held his closing rally in Barquisimeto in Lara state at the same time as Maduro's event in Caracas.
The 40-year-old state governor, lost a presidential election to Chavez last year.
His supporters are hoping that he will win this time around and give the country a fresh start after 14 years of Chavez's socialism.
Mr Capriles touched on a theme that has been common in his speeches, that of unifying a polarised Venezuela.
The latest private survey by local pollster Datanalisis, cited by the Eurasia Group think tank, gave him 50.2%, compared with 32.4% for his opponent.
That was a wider gap than in a Datanalisis poll last month that gave Maduro 49.2% and Capriles 34.8% .
