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 HAVANA (AP) - Vilma Espin, the former guerrilla fighter who was communist Cuba's most politically powerful woman, was laid to rest with full military honors Friday.
Her husband, acting president Raul Castro, placed an urn containing her ashes in a mausoleum in the Sierra Maestra, where Espin fought during the late 1950s against the government of Fulgencio Batista. Espin died Monday at age 77 following a lengthy illness.
Castro arrived at the Second Front in the Sierra Maestra along with family members, a small group of Espin's closest friends and other former rebels. The site northeast of the eastern city of Santiago houses holds the remains of other guerrilla fighters from the revolution led by Espin's brother-in-law Fidel Castro.
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