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03-07-2013, 05:00 PM
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Hugo Chavez's body will be permanently displayed in a special tomb, Venezuela's Vice President, Nicolas Maduro, announced Thursday on state television.
Maduro said the official state funeral will begin tomorrow at 10:30 ET. Some 30 heads of state along with delegations from 50 countries are expected to attend. Following the ceremony, Chavez's body will lie in state for seven additional days, so that more people can see it.
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Maduro, now the interim president, also announced that Chavez's body will be preserved in the same manner as that of Russia's Vladimir Lenin or China's Mao Zedong, so "he will always be with the people."
Visitors will be able to view Chavez's body in a special tomb now under construction in the mountains where the former leader launched his revolution.
He again called for peace and calm and thanked the public for respecting the solemnity of this occasion.
Chavez, the socialist leader who ran Venezuela for 14 years, lost his two-year battle with cancer Tuesday. His cancer was first detected in his pelvic region in 2011. He was 58.
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Hugo Chavez's body will be permanently displayed in a special tomb, Venezuela's Vice President, Nicolas Maduro, announced Thursday on state television.
Maduro said the official state funeral will begin tomorrow at 10:30 ET. Some 30 heads of state along with delegations from 50 countries are expected to attend. Following the ceremony, Chavez's body will lie in state for seven additional days, so that more people can see it.
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Maduro, now the interim president, also announced that Chavez's body will be preserved in the same manner as that of Russia's Vladimir Lenin or China's Mao Zedong, so "he will always be with the people."
Visitors will be able to view Chavez's body in a special tomb now under construction in the mountains where the former leader launched his revolution.
He again called for peace and calm and thanked the public for respecting the solemnity of this occasion.
Chavez, the socialist leader who ran Venezuela for 14 years, lost his two-year battle with cancer Tuesday. His cancer was first detected in his pelvic region in 2011. He was 58.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/07/17226935-maduro-chavez-body-to-be-permanently-displayed?lite