After nine days of tributes, Fidel is buried.

After a nine-day farewell that mobilized Cuba, Fidel Castro was buried on Sunday morning (4) in the Santa Ifigênia cemetery, in Santiago, in the east of the country; the ashes of Fidel, who ruled for 49 years after implementing communism in Cuba, were deposited next to the mausoleum of Cuba's national hero, Jose Martí (1853-95); the burial ceremony, with restricted access, was not broadcast on Cuban state TV; the event was attended by several international guests, including former presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff and the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro; the three were embraced by Raúl at the end of the speech; check out photos of the tributes

December 04, 2016, 15:16 AMUpdated March 26, 2020, 10:56 PM

After a nine-day farewell that mobilized Cuba, Fidel Castro was buried on Sunday morning (4) in the Santa Ifigênia cemetery, in Santiago, in the east of the country; the ashes of Fidel, who ruled for 49 years after implementing communism in Cuba, were deposited next to the mausoleum of Cuba's national hero, Jose Martí (1853-95); the burial ceremony, with restricted access, was not broadcast on Cuban state TV; the event was attended by several international guests, including former presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff and the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro; the three were embraced by Raúl at the end of the speech; check out photos of the tributes (Photo: Valter Lima)

247 - After a nine-day farewell that mobilized Cuba, Fidel Castro was buried on Sunday morning (4) at the Santa Ifigênia cemetery in Santiago, in the east of the country. Fidel's ashes, who ruled for 49 years after establishing communism in Cuba, were deposited next to the mausoleum of Cuba's national hero, Jose Martí (1853-95).

The funeral ceremony, which was restricted to all, was not broadcast on Cuban state television. Twenty-one shots were fired to mark the start of the ceremony.

Shaped like a stone and approximately 2 meters high, the tomb will be open for visitation in the early afternoon (local time). A small crowd had already gathered in front of the cemetery shortly after the burial.

In a speech on Saturday (3) night in Santiago, Raúl Castro, who replaced Fidel in power in 2006, said that, at his brother's request, there will be a law prohibiting statues and other tributes.

"The leader of the revolution rejected any manifestation of personality cult and remained consistent with this attitude until the last hours of his life," he said in a speech to several thousand Cubans in Santiago.

According to Raúl, Fidel demanded that "his name and image never be used to name institutions, squares, parks, avenues, streets or other public places, nor that monuments, busts, statues or other forms of tribute be erected in his memory."

As had happened in Havana on Monday (28), the event was attended by several international guests, including former presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff and the Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro. The three were embraced by Raúl at the end of the speech.

Check out the images below from the coverage by photographer Ricardo Stuckert: