Cuban Americans in Miami’s Little Havana ask communists to free island

MIAMI — In Miami’s Little Havana, Amy Amargos, Joe Aguiar, and Leonel Nora were among the Cuban Americans who are convinced that the only way the island’s problems will be fixed is with new leadership.

Amargos stood along Calle Ocho. She faced a 12-foot-tall dark gray hexagonal marble pillar. The monument has a flame burning from a silver urn, and the engraved names of 107 Brigade 2506 fighters.

The CIA-trained men, known as the “Martyrs of Playa Girón,” died during the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion to get communism out of the island. The desire to free Cuba hasn’t changed…

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