Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Dignitaries from around the world paid their respects to former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during his funeral ceremony as thousands of his supporters gathered to see the remains of the "revolutionary" leader kept in state in the military museum. A martyr for some, a dictator for others, the well-known Venezuelan figure died Tuesday aged 58 after a rigorous battle against his cancer for two years. While his death has given hopes to many of his foes who decried his socialist viewpoint as a challenge against well-established democracy in the American continent, supporters including his to-be successor glorified his visions and envisaged to sustain a heritage of the "21st Century Socialism" that Chavez left behind. |