guardian.co.uk
- Jonathan Watts, Virginia Lopez
• Vice president Nicolas Maduro takes up interim post • Wave of mourning breaks out in streets of Venezuela • Chávez to get state funeral in Caracas
Venezuelans began seven days of painful and public mourning on Tuesday night after the announcement that their president, Hugo Chávez, had died aged 58 after a long battle against cancer.
The country's vice-president, Nicolás Maduro – tipped as a likely successor – broke the news on Tuesday night, prompting a wave of grief in the nation's streets.
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