Havana begins saying goodbye to Fidel Castro

Cuba began its formal farewell to revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Monday with 21-gun salutes and a commemoration of his life in Havana's Plaza of the Revolution.

Thousands of Cubans filed Monday through a memorial at the plaza where a nine-story image of a young Castro towered. The revolutionary died Friday at 90, almost a decade after illness forced him to transfer power to his brother Raúl Castro, USA Today writes.