Venezuela's election race kicked off with throngs attending mass at the coffin of deceased leader Hugo Chavez and vowing to back his preferred successor, Nicolas Maduro, over opposition contender Henrique Capriles.
Both have now registered their candidacies for the April 14 vote, which will determine whether Mr Chavez's self-styled nationalist-socialist revolution will live on in the Opec nation, home to the world's largest proven oil reserves.
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