Nicolas Maduro Sworn in as Venezuelan President - Friday March 8,2013

Nicolas Maduro sworn in as Venezuelan President(Late President Hugo Chavez designated Maduro as his successor before he died on March 5,2013Tuesday of cancer)The President of the National Assembly Diosdado Cabello (Right) decorates Nicolas Maduro after swearing him in as Venezuela's acting president at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, on Friday. 

Venezuela’s 1999 constitution says the National Assembly speaker becomes interim president in the event of a president-elect’s death or inability to be sworn in and also says a presidential election should be called within 30 days

Opposition leader Angel Medina said earlier Friday that the opposition would boycott the swearing-in ceremony, and the vast majority of opposition legislators did not attend