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 HAVANA (AP) - Acting President Raul Castro blinked back tears Tuesday as he placed a red rose before a portrait of his late wife, Vilma Espin Guillois, a guerrilla warrior and women's rights pioneer who was the first lady of the Cuban revolution.
Castro has governed the island for nearly 11 months while his brother Fidel recovers from intestinal surgery, but Espin, who died Monday at 77, was Cuba's most powerful woman for decades, campaigning for equality among the sexes in education, work and other aspects of life.
"She was a tremendous revolutionary, but also a tremendous women," said Sara Hurtado, a 58-year-old retired Havana health worker. "She was a role model for all the women in Cuba."
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