Photos: World reacts to death of Hugo Chavez
March 6, 2013
The flag-draped coffin containing the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez is taken from the hospital where he died, to a military academy, where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Seven days of mourning were declared, all schools were suspended for the week and friendly heads of state were expected for an elaborate funeral Friday. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
A supporter of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez holds images of him while the coffin containing his body passes in the street, from the hospital where he died on Tuesday to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A woman holds a picture of President Hugo Chavez against her face as she cries outside the military hospital where he died Tuesday in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A woman cries as she watches the coffin containing the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez be taken from the hospital, where he died on Tuesday, to a military academy in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
View of the hearse carrying the coffin of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez while leaving the Military Hospital to the Military Academy, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. AFP PHOTO/Luis CAMACHO/AFP/Getty Images
Supporters stand on highway overpasses to get a view of the flag-draped coffin containing the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez being taken from the hospital, where he died on Tuesday, to a military academy in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Supporters of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez crowd the street to watch his coffin pass by as it is paraded from the hospital where he died on Tuesday to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man screams as the coffin of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez passes in the street as it is paraded from the hospital where he died on Tuesday to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
The coffin of deceased Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is driven through the streets of Caracas after leaving the military hospital where he died of cancer, in Caracas, March 6, 2013. Authorities have not yet said where the late Venezuelan President Chavez will be buried after his state funeral on Friday. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Venezuela's Ambassador to Haiti Pedro Antonio Canino Gonzalez weeps as he speaks about Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez during a press conference in Petion-Ville, Haiti, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Some marked Chavez's death with tears; others with cheers. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Supporters of deceased Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez react as his coffin is driven through the streets of Caracas, March 6, 2013. Venezuela's late President Chavez died on Tuesday of cancer, and authorities have not yet said where he will be buried after his state funeral on Friday. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro consoles a supporter of deceased Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, as his coffin is driven through the streets of Caracas, March 6, 2013. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Supporters of deceased Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez react as his coffin is driven through the streets of Caracas, March 6, 2013. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
A man walks in front of a wall bearing the image of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Cali March 6, 2013. Supporters of Chavez mourned his death in a flood of emotion that allies of the socialist leader hope will help ensure the survival of his self-styled revolution when voters elect a successor. Ending one of Latin America's most remarkable populist rules, Chavez died on Tuesday at 58 after a two-year battle with cancer that was first detected in his pelvis. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga
Supporters of deceased Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez react as his coffin is driven through the streets of Caracas, March 6, 2013. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
A man reads the news of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez on the newspapers in a newspaper stand in Cali March 6, 2013. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga
An employee of Venezuela's embassy arranges candles in front flowers and signs left outside the embassy in remembrance of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez in Mexico City March 6, 2013. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
Supporters of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez ride on a truck to follow his coffin as it is driven through the streets of Caracas, March 6, 2013. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
Leonilda Zurita (2nd R) and Segundina Flores, leaders of Bolivia's MAS (Movement Toward Socialism) party attend a ceremony in remembrance of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez at the congress building in La Paz, March 6, 2013. REUTERS/David Mercado
Palestinian hold posters depicting Venezuela's late president Hugo Chavez during a vigil outside the Venezuelan consulate in the West Bank city of Ramallah March 6, 2013. Chavez supported the Palestinian statehood aspirations. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
Supporters of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez stretch out a large national flag as they gather to see his coffin driven through the streets of Caracas, March 6, 2013. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
A woman holds a newspaper with the headline in Spanish "He's left us" as she stands with fellow supporters of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez to watch his coffin pass by, as it is paraded from the hospital where he died on Tuesday to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. . (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Supporters of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez embrace as the coffin containing his body passes in the street as it is taken from the hospital, where he died on Tuesday, to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Seven days of mourning were declared, all schools were suspended for the week and friendly heads of state were expected for an elaborate funeral Friday. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Nicaraguan President, Daniel Ortega speaks at the Revolution Square in Managua, on March 5, 2013, during the ceremony in honor to Hugo Chavez. AFP PHOTO/Hector RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images
A woman lays flowers a portrait of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Venezuela's embassy in Moscow on March 6, 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed today his late Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez as an uncommon and strong man who had made a huge contribution to relations between Moscow and Caracas. Russia enjoys close military ties with Venezuela, which also represents one of the main oversees investment targets of the giant state oil company Rosneft. AFP PHOTO / NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images
A young man reads a local newspaper the day after the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on March 6, 2013, in Managua, Nicaragua. Venezuela was plunged into uncertainty Wednesday after the death on the eve of President Hugo Chavez, who dominated the oil-rich country for 14 years and came to embody a resurgent Latin American left. AFP PHOTO/Hector RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images
Supporters of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez cry in front of the Military Hospital --where he had been hospitalized-- a day after his death in March 6, 2013, in Caracas. Venezuela was plunged into uncertainty Wednesday after the death of President Hugo Chavez, who dominated the oil-rich country for 14 years and came to embody a resurgent Latin American left. AFP PHOTO/Leo RAMIREZLEO RAMIREZ/AFP/Getty Images
A supporter of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stands in front of the Military Hospital where he died on the eve, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. AFP PHOTO/Leo RAMIREZ/AFP/Getty Images
A newspaper vendor shouts out the latest news showing photographs of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in La Paz on March 06, 2013. Venezuelans began Wednesday to bid farewell to late President Hugo Chavez, whose body was to lie in state for three days to honor the firebrand leftist who ruled the oil-rich nation for 14 years. AFP PHOTO/Aizar RALDES/AFP/Getty Images
A symbolic funeral chapel is installed at the Bolivian Parliament to pay tribute to Venezuelean President Hugo Chavez on March 6, 2013 in La Paz. AFP PHOTO/Aizar RALDES/AFP/Getty Images
Supporters of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wait for the passage of the funeral cortege on its way to the Military Academy, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. AFP PHOTO/JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images
A man passes by in front of a graffitti dedicated to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Panama City, on March 6, 2013. Venezuelans began Wednesday to bid farewell to late President Hugo Chavez, whose body was to lie in state for three days to honor the firebrand leftist who ruled the oil-rich nation for 14 years. AFP PHOTO/ Rodrigo ARANGUA/AFP/Getty Images
The hearse carrying the coffin of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez makes its way to the Military Academy amid thousands of supporters, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. The flag-draped coffin of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez was borne through throngs of weeping supporters on Wednesday as a nation bade farewell to the firebrand leftist who led them for 14 years. AFP PHOTO/Juan BARRETOJUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images
Thousands of supporters of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accompany the funeral cortege on its way to the Military Academy, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. The flag-draped coffin of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez was borne through throngs of weeping supporters on Wednesday as a nation bade farewell to the firebrand leftist who led them for 14 years. AFP PHOTO/Juan BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images
A man reads a newspaper the day after the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on March 6, 2013, in Cali, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia. AFP PHOTO / LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images
The hearse carrying the coffin of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez makes its way to the Military Academy amid thousands of supporters, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. AFP PHOTO/Juan BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images
Supporters of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wait for the passage of the funeral cortege on its way to the Military Academy, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. AFP PHOTO/JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images
View of the hearse carrying the coffin of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez while leaving the Military Hospital to the Military Academy, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. AFP PHOTO/Luis CAMACHO/AFP/Getty Images
Thousands of supporters accompany the hearse carrying the coffin of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez while leaving the Military Hospital to the Military Academy, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. AFP PHOTO/Luis CAMACHO/AFP/Getty Images
An Argentine flag at half mast for the demise of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, waves at Plaza de Mayo Square in Buenos Aires, on March 6, 2013. AFP PHOTO/ Alejandro PAGNI/AFP/Getty Images
View of the hearse carrying the coffin of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez while leaving the Military Hospital to the Military Academy, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. AFP PHOTO/Luis CAMACHO/AFP/Getty Images
A member of the Presidential Guard of Honor holds a replica of Simon Bolivar's sword while accompanying the hearse carrying the coffin of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on its way to the Military Academy, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. AFP PHOTO/Juan BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images
Thousands of supporters of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wait for the passage of the funeral cortege on its way to the Military Academy, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. AFP PHOTO/Juan BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images
Venezuelan acting President Nicolas Maduro (R) and Bolivian President Evo Morales (C in white) accompany the hearse carrying the coffin of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on its way to the Military Academy, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. AFP PHOTO/Juan BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images
Venezuelan acting President Nicolas Maduro (3rd R back) and Bolivian President Evo Morales (C in white) accompany the hearse carrying the coffin of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on its way to the Military Academy, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. AFP PHOTO/Juan BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images
Venezuelan acting President Nicolas Maduro (C) raises his fist while accompanying the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez funeral cortege on its way to the Military Academy, on March 6, 2013, in Caracas. AFP PHOTO/Juan BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images
French far-left Parti de Gauche (PG) party leader, Jean-Luc Melenchon delivers a speech on March 6, 2013 near the Alexandre III bridge in Paris, as he takes part in a rally in tribute to Venezuelian President Hugo Chavez who died from cancer at 58, on March 5. "What he is never dies", wrote Melenchon in a tweet last night. Melenchon paid several visits to Venezuela during Chavez' presidency. AFP PHOTO / PIERRE ANDRIEU/AFP/Getty Images
Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro, center, bumps fists with a supporter as he walks alongside the coffin of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez as it is taken from the hospital where Chavez died on Tuesday to a military academy in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Maduro will continue to run Venezuela as interim president and be the governing socialists' candidate in an election to be called within 30 days. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
The flag draped coffin containing the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez is taken from the hospital where he died, to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Workers gather for a tribute to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez during a march by the Central Labor Union in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. The poster says in Portuguese "Hugo Chavez. Present!" Chavez, who died Tuesday at age 58, was seen as a hero by some for his socialist programs, his anti-U.S. rhetoric and gifts of cut-rate oil. Others considered him a bully who repressed his opponents. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Workers gather for a tribute to Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez during a march by the Central Labor Union in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Chavez, who died Tuesday at age 58, was seen as a hero by some for his socialist programs, his anti-U.S. rhetoric and gifts of cut-rate oil. Others considered him a bully who repressed his opponents. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
An image of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez sits on display at a chapel inside Congress in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Flowers lay on the flag-draped coffin containing the body of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez as it is taken from the hospital where he died, to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
A supporter of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez holds a picture of him above a crowd waiting for Chavez's coffin to be taken from the hospital where he died on Tuesday, to a military academy where it will remain until his funeral in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
A Venezuelan soldier writes in a book of condolence for the late President Hugo Chavez at Venezuela's (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
A woman holding a Venezuelan flag cries as she watches the coffin containing the body of the late President Hugo Chavez be taken from the hospital, where he died on Tuesday, to a military academy in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man writes a note in a book of condolence at the embassy of Venezuela in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 6, 2013, to honor deceased President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
A supporter of the leftist FMLN political party joins hundreds of people gathered in San Salvador del Mundo Square, San Salvador, following the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on March 5, 2013. Chavez lost his battle with cancer on March 5, 2013, his death silencing the leading voice of the Latin American left and plunging his oil-rich nation into an uncertain future. AFP PHOTO / Marvin RECINOS/AFP/Getty Images
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