Venezuelans begin emotional farewells to Chavez
- Published: 6 Mar 2013 at 13.49
- Online news: World
The coffin of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez was taken Wednesday to a military academy where he will lie in state for three days, as throngs of weeping supporters swarmed Caracas streets to bid farewell.
Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro (R) and Venezuelan Minister of Communications Ernesto Villegas (L) accompany the funeral cortege of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez upon its arrival at the Military Academy, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas.
Hundreds of thousands waved flags and chanted "Chavez lives" as his hearse crawled across the capital in a seven-hour trip from the hospital where he died to the academy he once called his second home.
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