SANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) — Cuban President Raul Castro said Saturday
that his government will prohibit the naming of streets or public
monuments after his brother Fidel in keeping with the former
leader’s desire to avoid the development of a personality cult.

The younger Castro told a crowd gathered to pay homage to Fidel
Castro in the eastern city of Santiago that the country’s
National Assembly would pass in its next session a law fulfilling
his brother’s desire that, “once dead, his name and likeness
would never be used on institutions, streets, parks or other
public sites, and that busts statutes or other forms of tribute
would never be erected.”

Fidel Castro, who died Nov. 25 at 90, kept his name off public
sites during his time in office because he said he wanted to
avoid the development of a cult of personality. In contrast, the
images of his fellow revolutionary fighters Camilo Cienfuegos and
Ernesto “Che” Guevara have become common across Cuba in the
decades since their deaths.

Raul Castro spoke at the end of a second massive rally in honor
of Fidel as Cuba neared the end of its nine-day public mourning.
Castro’s ashes arrived Saturday afternoon in Santiago, ending a
four-day journey across Cuba that began after a massive rally in
Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution.

Thousands of people welcomed the leader’s remains to shouts of
“Fidel! I am Fidel!” Then hundreds of thousands gathered in
Santiago’s Revolution Plaza Saturday night, cheering speeches by
the heads of state-run groups of small farmers, women,
revolutionary veterans and neighborhood watch committee members.