AQ Slideshow: Venezuelans Pay Their Respects to Hugo Chávez

Throughout the day on Wednesday, enormous crowds took to the streets of Caracas to join the president’s procession from the hospital in which he died to the military academy. The impressive procession traversed eight kilometers of the capital city and lasted seven hours, flooding major avenues and parts of the highway.

Venezuelan Vice President Nicolás Maduro accompanied Chávez’s casket on foot for the entire procession, alongside his wife, Cilia Flores, and President Evo Morales of Bolivia. In his first act as interim president, Maduro decreed a seven-day period of national...

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