MIAMI (WSVN) - South Floridians came together to pay tribute to thousands of fallen Cubans at Tamiami Park, Sunday.
Mourners marked the third anniversary of the Cuban Memorial at the park during a ceremony hosted by Miami-Dade Commissioner Joe Martinez. Attendees honored the thousands who have died fighting or trying to escape Fidel Castro’s regime since 1959.
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“Whether they had been executed by Castro, whether they had been put in prison and died there, whether they had died crossing the [Florida] Straits to get here, them and their family members, it was really a remembrance of the people who died trying to gain freedom,” said Martinez.
Hundreds gathered at Tamiami Park back in 2003 to lay crosses that represented loved ones lost. A monument was later erected in the park as a permanent memorial.
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