Millions mourn chavez as funeral delayed, as activists take to streets to oppose death penalty
Chavez remains hospitalized and has not attended church at the funeral service as some Venezuelans have requested
Chavez’s son-in-law, Luis Felipe Chávez, and his brother Alejandro are among the mourners
On Monday, the Venezuelan government postponed the funeral service of President Hugo Chavez due to concerns over the risk of an earthquake.
The postponement followed protests by demonstrators against the president’s death who gathered in a popular plaza where police and military stood guard to deal with the mass protests.
‚They said that we will give the country death penalty when we die. We don’t need to do that to kill us,‘ a woman told Reuters from her balcony, adding that „we’re trying to kill Chavez.“
Chavez is expected to take his final breaths in a public place in a public hospital in the heart of Caracas on Tuesday.
Maduro announced earlier on Monday that the death penalty would be imposed on Chavez as President-elect, who has been under house arrest since last year.
Maduro spoke by phone with his Venezuelan counterpart to discuss the decision to remove Chavez from office, Venezuela’s state-run newspaper, El Universal said.
Maduro wants Chavez released quickly but is confident that the Venezuelan President will not die in jail.
Chavez was found guilty of murder in 2003 but was later acquitted in a court of appeal.
Maduro has been under intense pressure to pardon Venezuela’s vice president, Hugo Chavez, after the death sentence was passed against him in April 충주출장안마 충주안마for alleged role in a 2002 violent coup.
The government said in March that the judge who carried out the conviction had not been present at the trial.
On Monday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was found guilty of murder in 2003우리 카지노 but was later acquitted in a court of appeal. The opposition accuses him of being behind a 2002 violent coup
While on trial, Chavez’s legal team described him as a loyal soldier and loyal to the Venezuelan people and his supporters are expected to demonstrate against the president’s 인터넷 바카라possible death.
Maduro has already asked his country’s Supreme Court to release Chavez from house arrest and to place him in an airy prison with a medical condition, according to El Universal.
But he was found not guilty of these two charges, in addition to being found guilty of murder, in March 2013.