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Chavez's body brought 'home' to military academy

By Paul Haven, AP
March 8, 2013, 12:34 am TWN

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CARACAS, Venezuela--Hugo Chavez has been carried back to the military academy where he started his army career, his flag-draped coffin lying in state in the echoing halls as a mile-long (1.5 kilometer-long) line of mourners came to pay homage Thursday to the larger-than-life leader.

Cannon boomed a salute each hour as Venezuelans numbering in the hundreds of thousands filed past.

“I waited 10 hours to see him, but I am very happy, proud to have seen my comandante,” said 46-year-old Yudeth Hurtado, who was weeping. “He is planted in our heart.”

As a band played the hymn from his first battalion, Chavez's coffin was displayed at the academy after an emotion-drenched procession through Caracas.

With the entire government, including anointed successor Nicolas Maduro, caught up in the seven-hour procession, there were few answers to the most pressing question facing the country — the timing of a presidential election that must be called within a month.

Chavez's coffin made its way through the crowds Wednesday atop an open hearse on an eight-kilometer (five-mile) journey that wound through the city's north and southeast, into many of the poorer neighborhoods where Chavez drew his political strength.

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	This handout picture released by Miraflores presidential palace press office shows an aerial view of the funeral cortege of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on its way to the Military Academy, in Caracas on Wednesday, March 6. (AFP) More Photos (2)

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