What you won't see on today's Funeral Cadena Broadcast

These photos I took are for all the doubters.
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These are the immediate surroundings of la Academia Militar, where, in two hours, a solemn State funeral with foreign dignitaries and heads of state will be held. It…how to put this delicately?…smells like shit.

Obviously this will not be shown on TV.

I really doubt el propio Chávez would’ve wanted it this way.

Nice place for a state funeral, huh?
Nice place for a state funeral, huh?

On the other hand, the lines to see Chávez one last time are far better organized today. Maybe they read yesterday’s post…

Maybe they read yesterday's post...
In other news: the Ávila is still spectacular.

Emiliana Duarte

Emi is a cook, a lover of animals, politics, expletives, and Venezuela. She is the co-founder of Caracas Chronicles LLC and Managing Editor if the site until December 2017.