Global leaders, celebrities honour Chavez at funeral

Venezuelan presidency showing US Reverend Jesse Jackson (left) talking with US Actor and filmmaker Sean Penn during the funeral of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas, on March 8, 2013. Latin American leaders and US foes paid tribute to Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on Friday as he lay in state in a flag-draped coffin during a lavish state funeral before the nation swears-in an interim president. -- PHOTO: AFP

Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolas Maduro addresses the crowd of supporters lining up to pay their last respects to late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, outside the Military Academy in Caracas on March 7, 2013. Mr Maduro said that the remains of late President Hugo Chavez will stay for at least seven more days in the funeral chapel to give everybody the chance to pay him their respects and thereafter he will be embalmed. -- PHOTO: AFP

Venezuelans paying homage to late President Hugo Chavez during his funeral, in Caracas, on March 7, 2013. Late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez will be moved to a barracks where he will lie in state for longer than had been planned then be embalmed "like Lenin", interim leader Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday. -- PHOTO: AFP

The parents of late President Hugo Chavez , Elena Frias and Hugo de los Reyes Chavez (centre) and his brother Adan (left) during his funeral, in Caracas, on March 7, 2013. Late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez will be moved to a barracks where he will lie in state for longer than had been planned then be embalmed "like Lenin," interim leader Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday. -- PHOTO: AFP

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa views the body of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, which is lying in state, as he visits the wake with his wife Anne Malherbe (right), at the military academy in Caracas on March 7, 2013, in this picture provided by the Miraflores Palace. Chavez will be embalmed and put on display "for eternity" at a military museum after a state funeral and an extended period of lying in state, acting President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Supporters of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez hold a portrait of him as they wait for a chance to view his body lying in state, at the military academy in Caracas on March 8, 2013. Chavez will be embalmed and put on display "for eternity" at a military museum after a state funeral and an extended period of lying in state, acting President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Cuba's President Raul Castro salutes as he stands next to the coffin containing the remains of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez, during his wake at a military academy where his body will lie in state until his funeral, in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday, March 7, 2013. At right is Chavez's daughter Rosa Virginia Chavez and left is Vice-President Nicolas Maduro. -- PHOTO: AP

A general view of the funeral of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, on March 8, 2013. Latin American leaders and US foes paid tribute to Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on Friday as he lay in state in a flag-draped coffin during a lavish state funeral before the nation swears-in an interim president. -- PHOTO: AFP

Bolivia's national police cadets hold a portrait of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez during a ceremony in tribute to him in front of the presidential palace in La Paz on March 8, 2013. Chavez died this week aged 58 after a two-year battle with cancer, devastating millions of mostly poor supporters who loved him for putting the country's vast oil wealth at their service, but giving hope to foes who saw him as a dictator. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, center left, stands with other dignitaries next to the flag-draped coffin of late Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez during the funeral ceremony at the military academy in Caracas, Venezuela, on Friday, March 8, 2013. Others in picture include  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, Spain's Crown Prince Felipe de Borbon, second from left top, Cuba's President Raul Castro, second from left, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa. Venezuela's Vice-President Nicolas Maduro, centre left top, Chile's President Senbastian Pinera and Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos. -- PHOTO: AP

This handout picture released by Venezuelan presidency press office shows Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offering his condolences to Hugo Chavez's mother Elena Frias, during the funeral of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, on March 8, 2013. Latin American leaders and US foes paid tribute to Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on Friday as he lay in state in a flag-draped coffin during a lavish state funeral before the nation swears-in an interim president. -- PHOTO: AFP

Supporters of late Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez await their turn to pay their last homage to their leader, in Caracas, on March 7, 2013. Latin American leaders and US foes paid tribute to Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on Friday as he lay in state in a flag-draped coffin during a lavish state funeral before the nation swears-in an interim president. -- PHOTO: AFP

Latin American and Caribbean leaders stand around the flag-draped coffin of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez during the funeral ceremony at the military academy in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, March 8, 2013. Front row, from left to right are Colombia's President Jose Manuel Santos, Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina, Guyana's President Donald Ramotar, and Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer. On the other side of the casket are, from right, Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina, Haiti's President Michel Martelly and Honduras' President Porfirio Lobo. -- PHOTO: AP

A peddler sells pictures of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, on March 8, 2013. Venezuela gave Hugo Chavez a lavish farewell on Friday at a state funeral that brought some of the world's most notorious strongmen to tears, with music, prayers and a fiery speech by his successor. -- PHOTO: AFP

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right), Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (left) and his son Nikolai paying their last respects to the coffin of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, on March 8, 2013. Latin American leaders and US foes paid tribute to Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez on Friday as he lay in state in a flag-draped coffin during a lavish state funeral before the nation swears-in an interim president. -- PHOTO: AFP

Venezuela's Vice-President Nicolas Maduro (centre) speaks during the funeral service for late President Hugo Chavez at the Military Academy in Caracas on March 8, 2013, in this picture provided by the Miraflores Palace. Chavez will be embalmed and put on display "for eternity" at a military museum after a state funeral and an extended period of lying in state, Mr Maduro said on Thursday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS