Raúl deposits the remains of Fidel in Saint Iphigenia.

In a solemn and intimate ceremony, Cuban President Raul Castro deposited the cedar urn with the ashes of the Commander in Chief in a coffin of high historical symbolism: a stone about 4 meters high from the Sierra Maestra, where the A historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, fought the guerrilla struggle that led to the revolutionary triumph of January 1, 1959. There they will rest for ever, alongside those of the National Hero José Martí, Father de la Patria, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, and Mariana Grajales, the legendary mother of the Maceo´s heroic legion. Once again the famous cemetery of Saint Iphigenia shelters in the heroic city of Santiago de Cuba to the best of its children, this time to the unbeaten Caguairán of the thousand battles. "Death is not true when the work of life has been fulfilled," José Martí.

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