Thousands of people have gathered at the Plaza de la Revolución Antonio Maceo in Santiago de Cuba where a memorial service is being held for Fidel Castro.
Castro’s ashes arrived Saturday in Santiago after a four-day tour across the island nation.
Starting in Havana, the tour reversed the route Castro took across the island after seizing power in 1959. Crowds of Cubans lined the roads and stood on rooftops to watch Castro’s funeral cortege pass by.
Fidel Castro was part of the small group of revolutionaries who launched an attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago on 26 July 1953.
The attacked failed, but it was considered the first act of the revolution that would depose the US-backed government of Fulgencio Batista on 1 January 1959.
Most of the attackers were killed and Castro and a handful of others were captured. The attack made him famous throughout Cuba.
The Cuban leader died November 25 at 90, his brother, President Raul Castro, announced on state television.
Castro’s remains were cremated Wednesday and hundreds of thousands attended a Mass that night in Havana.
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