A day of tears after Chavez's death

Thursday, March 7, 2013

CARACAS, Venezuela -- By the hundreds of thousands, Hugo Chavez's tearful supporters carried their dead president through streets still plastered with his smiling image, an epic farewell to a larger-than-life leader remembered simply as "our commander."

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