Cubans in Florida Cheer News on Castro

“When Gladys Morales heard that Fidel Castro had temporarily given up power, she woke her 70-year-old mother to celebrate with other Cuban exiles dancing in Hialeah’s streets.

The women, who came to the United States from Cuba in 1970, cheered Castro’s illness in this heavily Cuban-American city northwest of Miami as if the communist leader many consider a ruthless dictator were already dead - which many hoped was true.

“The first thing I thought of when I heard about Fidel is that I only wish my Luis was here to see this,” Mirta Morales said of her late husband, who died in April 2004. “He would have been here with us, laughing and celebrating with his people.”"

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