Fidel lives in the work of a people that resists, creates and overcomes. Photo: Dunia Álvarez Palacios

Santiago de Cuba – More than 100,000 people from Santiago de Cuba made a tightly packed pilgrimage yesterday to pay homage to the Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, on the seventh anniversary of the burial of his ashes in the patrimonial cemetery of Santa Ifigenia.

From the Plaza de la Revolución Mayor General Antonio Maceo Grajales, passing through Patria Avenue, the united march arrived at the cemetery where, early in the morning, a wreath had been placed in the name of the Cuban people, before the monolith that treasures Fidel’s ashes.

Present were the member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Party in the province, José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz, other political and government leaders, as well as Fidel Antonio Castro Smirnov, advisor of the Honorary Chair for the study of the work and thought of Fidel Castro, of the University of Oriente, and grandson of the historical leader.

On the premises of the Altar of the Homeland, the people of Santiago expressed their feelings of gratitude and tribute to the best disciple of José Martí. Castro Smirnov wrote to Granma that “today we come with the immense joy of bringing Fidel in our thoughts. It is moving to receive his closeness and strength, which he always gave us and will continue to give us”.