VENEZUELA-CHAVEZ-FUNERAL

VENEZUELA-CHAVEZ-FUNERAL

People cry as the coffin with the remains of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is taken to his resting place at the former “4 de Febrero” barracks — a barracks-turned-museum that the former paratrooper had used as his headquarters during a failed 1992 coup attempt — in Caracas, on March 15, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans thronged the streets of Caracas on Friday to bid a final farewell to the late leader a month before elections to pick his successor. The Caracas military academy, where Chavez’s casket has been on view, served as the starting point for the procession escorting the remains of the 58-year-old, who last week succumbed to cancer after 14 years in power. AFP PHOTO/RONALDO SCHEMIDT