Tens
of thousands of Cubans lined up in central Havana on Monday to pay
their last respects to Fidel Castro, with RT’s Maria Finoshina
joining the procession. The two-day commemoration at the Jose Marti
Memorial on the north side of Havana’s Plaza de la Revolucion
started with a 21-gun salute.
Inside
the memorial, people walked past a portrait of a young Fidel dressed
in military uniform as we saw the former Cuban president’s medals
all decorated in white flowers.
Castro,
who led the Cuban revolution in 1959 and was in charge of the country
until 2008, died at the age of 90 on Friday.
But
even after ceding power to his brother Raul, Fidel was still
considered the most significant moral authority in Cuba. At the end
of an official nine-day period of mourning, Castro’s ashes will be
interred at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba on
December 4 after the mourning ends.
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