Jorge Malagón Márquez’s first sighting of Miami’s iconic Freedom Tower, the so-called Ellis Island of the south for its role in processing more than half a million Cubans fleeing Fidel Castro’s communist revolution, was through a flood of tears.
It was May 1967, and his family had just arrived from Havana on one of the first so-called Freedom flights ferrying refugees allowed to escape the dictator’s tightening grip on the island.
