Sean Penn reportedly inconsolable.

Via Washington Times:

It may be too late to preserve deceased Venezuela President Hugo Chavez’s body in a glass casket “for eternity” after all.

The embalming process should have started earlier, government officials said, in a Reuters report.

“Russian and German scientists have arrived to embalm Chavez, and they tell us it’s very difficult because the process should have started earlier,” said interim President Nicolas Maduro, Reuters reported. “Maybe we can’t do it. We are in the middle of the process. It’s complicated — it’s my duty to inform you.”