Ailing Chavez misses Venezuela inauguration rally

January 11, 2013 01:05

AFP: With cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez hospitalised in Cuba, thousands of flag-waving Venezuelans in red shirts filled the streets of Caracas today to inaugurate his new term without him.

Bands played anthems from street-side stages as people poured out of buses to make their way on foot toward the Miraflores presidential palace for a symbolic swearing-in of the people in place of Chavez, who is too sick to take the oath of office.

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