Fidel Castro’s ashes are buried in Santiago de Cuba

A woman weeps after watching a military convoy transport the remains of former Cuban President Fidel Castro from Revolution Plaza to the Cementerio Santa Ifigenia where he will be buried December 4, 2016 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Sunday marked the last of a nine-day mourning period after Castro died November 25 at the age of 90. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Military guards carry flowers through the Cementerio Santa Ifigenia where the remains of former Cuban President Fidel Castro were entombed December 4, 2016 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. The tomb stands to the side of a memorial to the rebel soldiers killed in an attack that Castro led on Santiago’s Moncada barracks on July 26, 1953, and in front of the mausoleum of Cuban national hero Jose Marti. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A helicopter overflies Santa Clara, Cuba, on December 1, 2016 as the urn with the ashes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro is driven through the city during its four-day journey across the island for the burial in Santiago de Cuba. A military jeep is taking the ashes of Fidel Castro on a four-day journey across Cuba, with islanders lining the roads to bid farewell to the late communist icon. Castro died at 90 on November 25, 2016 and will be buried in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba on Sunday. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

A woman places flowers in the tomb of former Cuban President Fidel Castro at the Cementerio Santa Ifigenia, on December 4, 2016 in Santiago de Cuba. Fidel Castro’s ashes were buried alongside national heroes in the cradle of his revolution, as Cuba opens a new era without the communist leader who ruled the island for decades. (Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images)

Cubans queue in line to visit Fidel Castro’s tomb at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba on December 4, 2016. Fidel Castro’s ashes were buried alongside national heroes in the cradle of his revolution, as Cuba opens a new era without the communist leader who ruled the island for decades. (Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images)

View of Fidel Castro’s tomb at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba on December 4, 2016. Fidel Castro’s ashes were buried alongside national heroes in the cradle of his revolution, as Cuba opens a new era without the communist leader who ruled the island for decades. (Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images)

Cubans queue in line to visit Fidel Castro’s tomb at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba on December 4, 2016. Fidel Castro’s ashes were buried alongside national heroes in the cradle of his revolution, as Cuba opens a new era without the communist leader who ruled the island for decades.(Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images)

The urn with the ashes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro leaves Revolution Square in Santiago, Cuba on December 4, 2016 on its way to the cemetery. The ashes of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro were taken on Sunday to be laid to rest at a cemetery in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

Cubans visit Fidel Castro’s tomb at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba on December 4, 2016. Fidel Castro’s ashes were buried alongside national heroes in the cradle of his revolution, as Cuba opens a new era without the communist leader who ruled the island for decades. (Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images)

Cuban President Raul Castro places the urn with the ashes of his brother Fidel Castro in his tomb at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba on December 4, 2016. Fidel Castro’s ashes were buried alongside national heroes in the cradle of his revolution on Sunday, as Cuba opens a new era without the communist leader who ruled the island for decades. (Marcelino Vazquez/AFP/Getty Images)

A guard of honour stays by the tomb of Cuban leader Fidel Castro at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba on December 4, 2016. Fidel Castro’s ashes were buried alongside national heroes in the cradle of his revolution on Sunday, as Cuba opens a new era without the communist leader who ruled the island for decades. (Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images)

People chant “I am Fidel!” as the motorcade carrying the ashes of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro leaves Cespedes Park in Santiago, Cuba, on Dec. 3, 2016. After days of national mourning and a tour of his ashes through the countryside, his remains have arrived at the city where they will be laid to rest. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

A soldier of the Revolutionary Armed Forces ( FAR ) stand in guard next to the tomb of Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago, Cuba, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016. A wooden box containing Fidel Castro’s ashes was placed by his brother and successor Raul on Sunday into the side of a granite boulder that has become Cuba’s only official monument to the charismatic bearded rebel. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A woman hands over rose to people visiting the tomb of Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago, Cuba, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016. A wooden box containing Fidel Castro’s ashes was placed by his brother and successor Raul on Sunday into the side of a granite boulder that has become Cuba’s only official monument to the charismatic bearded rebel. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Nov. 28, 2016 photo, a girl writes her name on a list to be added to a book of condolences for the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro at a municipal office in Havana, Cuba. In Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution, hundreds of thousands paid tribute to images of Fidel Castro and signed oaths of loyalty to the socialist system he created. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

In this Nov. 30, 2016 photo, people wait for the arrival of the caravan carrying the ashes of Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro during a funeral procession that retraces the path of Castro’s triumphant march into Havana nearly six decades ago, in Cruces, Cuba. On the lonely roads of eastern Cuba, crowds waited for hours to salute the casket holding Castro’s ashes. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Nov. 29, 2016 photo, a man holds a child as he waits in line to visit the memorial site for the late cuban leader Fidel Castro at the Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba. Schools and government offices closed in homage to Fidel Castro, with the day ending in a rally on the wide plaza where the Cuban leader delivered fiery speeches to mammoth crowds in the years after he seized power. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Nov. 30, 2016 photo, a man with a tattoo of Cuba’a late leader Fidel Castro, waits for the arrival of the caravan carrying his ashes during a funeral procession that retraces the path of Castro’s triumphant march into Havana nearly six decades ago, in Cruces, Cuba. Castro’s ashes completed in Santa Clara the first leg of a cross-country trip, a four-day journey across Cuba from Havana to their final resting place in the eastern city of Santiago. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Nov. 29, 2016 photo, a woman arrives at a memorial in honor of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, holding a bouquet of flowers, in Guanabacoa on the outskirts in Havana, Cuba. President Raul Castro said Cuba would bars statues of Castro and monuments bearing his name in keeping with the former leader’s desire to prevent the growth of a cult of personality. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In this Dec. 2, 2016 photo, seniors who were part of Fidel Castro’s rebel force during Cuba’s revolution pose for a group portrait, before Castro’s funeral procession passes through Bayamo, Cuba. Castro’s ashes travelled in a four-day journey across Cuba through small towns and cities where his rebel army fought its way to power nearly 60 years ago, to their final resting place in the eastern city of Santiago. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Nov. 29, 2016 photo, a man holds a sign with a picture of Fidel Castro that reads in Spanish “Fidel among us'” during a rally honoring the late Cuban leader at Revolution Plaza in Havana, Cuba. Schools and government offices were closed in homage to Fidel Castro, with the day ending in a rally on the wide plaza where the Cuban leader delivered fiery speeches to mammoth crowds in the years after he seized power. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In this Dec. 1, 2016 photo, placed in a small coffin covered by a Cuban flag, the ashes of Cuba’s late leader Fidel Castro are driven along the streets of Florida, Cuba. Castro’s ashes journeyed across Cuba from Havana to their final resting place in the eastern city of Santiago. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In this Nov. 28, 2016 photo, people wait in line to pay their final respects to the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in Havana, Cuba. Hundreds of thousands paid tribute to images of Fidel Castro and signed oaths of loyalty to the socialist system he created. Cuba’s government declared nine days of national mourning following Castro’s death at age 90. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this Dec. 2, 2016 photo, soldiers stand beside diesel tanks and a fire extinguisher to refill the vehicles of the funeral procession carrying the ashes of Cuba’s late leader Fidel Castro, outside Las Tunas, Cuba. Castro’s ashes journeyed across Cuba from Havana to their final resting place in the eastern city of Santiago through small towns and cities where his rebel army fought its way to power nearly 60 years ago. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

In this Dec. 1, 2016 photo, Elisa Ricardo, reflected in the mirror at right, stands in her living room decorated with images of Cuba’s President Raul Castro, right, his late brother Fidel Castro, center, and late revolutionary hero Camilo Cienfuegos, left, in Old Havana, Cuba. President Raul Castro said the country would bar statues of Fidel Castro and monuments bearing his name in keeping with the former leader’s desire to prevent the growth of a cult of personality. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

In this Dec. 2, 2016 photo, a villager mounted on his horse waits for the ashes of Cuba’s late leader Fidel Castro as they drive along the central road in Las Tunas, Cuba. On the lonely roads of eastern Cuba, people waited for hours to salute the casket holding Fidel Castro’s ashes. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this Nov. 30, 2016 photo, a car covered with messages to Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro is parked in La Esperanza, Cuba. Castro’s ashes journeyed in a funeral procession that retraced the path of his triumphant march into Havana nearly six decades ago in a four-day journey across Cuba from the capital to their final resting place in the eastern city of Santiago. President Raul Castro said Cuba would bars statues of Castro and monuments bearing his name in keeping with the former leader’s desire to prevent the growth of a cult of personality. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

In this Dec. 2, 2016 photo, a man uses a picture of Fidel Castro to shade himself from the sun while waiting for the convoy carrying the ashes of Cuba’s late leader, along the central road near Yarigua, Las Tunas, Cuba. Castro’s ashes journeyed across Cuba from Havana to their final resting place in the eastern city of Santiago. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this Nov. 30, 2016 photo, Michael Mendoza carries a portrait of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in his horse-drawn taxi carriage in Camaguey, Cuba. Castro’s ashes retraced the journey he made from Santiago to Havana, passing trough Camaguey, after his rebel force won power in 1959, in a solemn procession to his final resting spot. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this Dec. 3, 2016 photo, a former combatant of the Revolutionary Army, Paulina Ballard, 81, weeps after watching the funeral procession carrying the ashes of Cuba’s late leader Fidel Castro arrive in Santiago, Cuba. After a four-day journey across the country through small towns and cities where his rebel army fought its way to power nearly 60 years ago, Castro’s remains were interred in Santiago. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Nov. 28, 2016 photo, a woman holds an image of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, as she waits in line to pay her final respects, in Havana, Cuba. Thousands of Cubans lined up early for the start of week-long services bidding farewell to the man who ruled the country for nearly half a century. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Fidel Castro’s ashes are buried in Santiago de Cuba

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