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Farewell to Hugo Chavez 

March 8, 2013 
by Jerome Sessini 
Hundreds of thousands of mourners and numerous world leaders, including Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Alexander Lukashenko and Raul Castro, attended the state funeral of president Hugo Chavez at the military academy of Caracas. Hundreds of thousands of people filing past his open casket nonstop since Wednesday to say goodbye to Hugo Chavez, 58, who died on march 5th for cancer.