VANIER: Welcome back, everyone. Fidel Castro was laid to rest in Santiago de Cuba on Sunday. The country said goodbye to the man many consider its father figure.</s>CHURCH: But the final ceremony was nothing like the celebrations we saw last week. Our Patrick Oppman reports.</s>PATRICK OPPMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In Santiago de Cuba, known as the cradle of the revolution, tens of thousands of the people give Fidel Castro his last public sends off. The crowd of Castro admirers pledged their devotion to fallen leader until La Victoria Siempre, the eternal victory. But Raul Castro said his brother would not be immortalized in the way that so many struggled before him.</s>OPPMAN: Castro was lay to rest on Sunday in Santiago. A private ceremony for a leader who for six decades lived the most public life. Only members of the secretive Castro family and small number of guests were in attendance. Just weeks before his death, Fidel Castro's son and personal photographer predicted his father's final wish.</s>OPPMAN: And why doesn't he love it?</s>OPPMAN: For hundreds of thousands led highways and roads across Cuba as Castro's ashes were transported pass, to worship the leader who changed the lives and island forever. Housewife (Inaudible) Santos Garcia waited alongside the road for hours to catch a final brief glimpse of the Cuban leader she said she loved like a gather.</s>OPPMAN: But Castro also left behind a host of problems for Cubans to grapple with. An outdated Soviet style economy, a heavy handed police state, the exodus of some of the islands best and brightest. As the massive memorial of Castro die down, Cubans are left alone to face an uncertain future. Patrick Oppman, CNN, Santiago de Cuba.
Cuba's Final Goodbye to Fidel Castro.