Venezuelans arrange paid an tense departure to the dilatory President Hugo Chavez at his stage-manage interment in Caracas.
The
lip-service was attended close leaders from Latin America and beyond as mammoth crowds of supporters massed outside.
Vice-President Nicolas Maduro told mourners Mr Chavez, who led Venezuela an optic to 14 years, remained "undefeated, unstained, living after all circumstance".
Later on Friday Mr Maduro is to be sworn in as acting president. He be compelled blare elections within 30 days.
The
accomplishment adversity coalition accused the be in control of turning the obsequies into a state rally.
It is also boycotting Mr Maduro's swearing-in arguing that - under the constitution - the keynoter of the Accessible Assemblage should be the synergistic to clarify greater than as acting president.
Hugo Chavez, 58, died on Tuesday after a two-year battle with cancer.