Jose Diaz sells flags out on the streets of Little Havana over the lunch hour. (Photo: Andrea Melendez, The News-Press)
MIAMI — For Esteban Bovo, Fidel Castro's death has been decades in the making.
The 78-year-old Cuban exile is one of hundreds that remain of the Brigade 2506, a CIA-sponsored group of men sent to overthrow Fidel Castro in 1961.
The mission failed.
"I cannot tell you that I'm happy that he's dead," Bovo said. "The only thing I'm sorry about is I could not dispose of him with our bare hands."
Bovo will be one of many to attend a planned rally in Little Havana, a Cuban and immigrant enclave in Miami.
The streets have emptied of traffic as police officers await the arrival of thousands coming to rally for political change in Cuba.
José Díaz is using the opportunity to make some business by selling $5 Cuban flags.
Dani Perez and his wife Silvia Prez sit with an American Flag and a Cuban flag as they wait for the celebration. (Photo: Andrea Melendez, The News-Press)
"I was thrown away by Fidel Castro," said Diaz, who arrived 37 years ago to the U.S. "They called me a chronic dissident."
Bovo, a part of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association, said the rally is about reminding the world that Cubans want political change on the island.
Bovo doesn't expect change overnight, but he said he believes Raúl Castro, brother of Fidel and Cuban president since 2008, will have a hard time maintaining his power.
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"It's mostly symbolic to express your opinion," Bovo said. "You never lose hope. There's always a tomorrow, hopefully better than yesterday."
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Placed in a small coffin covered by a Cuban flag, the ashes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro are driven along the streets of the port of Havana on Nov. 30, 2016. Castro's ashes have begun a four-day journey across Cuba from Havana to their final resting place in the eastern city of Santiago. Enric Marti, AP
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People line the famous Malecon seaside boulevard as the motorcade carrying the ashes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro passes in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 30, 2016. Dario Lopez-Mills, AP
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People attend a memorial service for Cuba's late President Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People attend a memorial service for Cuba's late President Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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A young people pass the time along with thousands of other people waiting hours before the memorial service for Cuba's late President Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 29, 2016. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People attend a memorial service for Cuba's late President Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People attend a memorial service for Cuba's late President Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People attend a memorial service for Cuba's late President Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People arrive for the memorial service for Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 29, 2016. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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Young people wait hours along with thousands of others before the memorial service for Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Havana's Revolution Square. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People wait for the beginning of a memorial service for Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Havana. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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Fans crowd around Javier Sotomayor, the Cuban gold medalist and world-record holder in the men's high jump, as he walks among people waiting for the memorial service in Havana. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People stand in line to pay tribute to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 29, 2016. Castro's ashes will be interred in Santiago on Dec. 4. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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Thousands of people stand in line to pay tribute to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 29, 2016. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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Elian Gonzalez talks to media as he and thousands of people pay tribute to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 29, 2016. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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Thousands of people stand in line to pay tribute to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 29, 2016. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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Thousands of people stand in line to pay tribute to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 29, 2016. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People stand in line to pay tribute to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 29, 2016. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People wait in line to pay respect to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People stand in line to pay respect to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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Thousands wait in line to pay respect to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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An elderly man is helped while waiting in line as thousands of people wait to pay respect to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People wait in line to pay respect to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People wait in line to pay respect to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People pay respect to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro at a memorial in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People wait in line to pay respect to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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People stand in line to pay respect to Cuba's late president Fidel Castro in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
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Cuban soldiers stand guard while people pay their respects to Fidel Castro, part of a series of memorials in Havana, on Nov.28, 2016. Castro died Friday at age 90. Pedro Pardo, AFP/Getty Images
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A man holds his hand over his heart after paying respects to Fidel Castro in Havana on Nov. 28, 2016. Ramon Espinosa, AP
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A woman weeps after paying final respects to Fidel Castro at Revolution Plaza in Havana. Ramon Espinosa, AP
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People grieve after offering tribute to Fidel Castro at Revolution Square in Havana on Nov. 28, 2016. Desmond Boylan, AP
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An honor guard fires blank shots honoring Fidel Castro in Havana on Nov. 28, 2016. Ricardo Mazalan, AP
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Rafaela Vargas mourns the death of former president Fidel Castro at the entrance of her home in the Vedado neighborhood in Havana, Cuba, on Nov. 26, 2016. Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of U.S. presidents during his half-century rule, died at age 90. Desmond Boylan, AP
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An image of Fidel Castro and a Cuban flag are displayed in honor of the late leader one day after he died, inside the foreign ministry in Havana, Cuba, on Nov. 26, 2016. Ramon Espinosa, AP
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People with images of Fidel Castro gather one day after his death in Havana, Cuba, on Nov. 26, 2016. Cuba will observe nine days of mourning for the former president who ruled Cuba for half a century. Ramon Espinosa, AP
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Hundreds of young Cubans gather at Havana University to remember Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Nov. 26, 2016. Alejandro Ernesto, European Pressphoto Agency
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A Cuban flag flies at half-staff, left, and a picture of Fidel Castro decorates the headquarters of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), one day after Castro died in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 26, 2016. Desmond Boylan, AP
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An old man sits next to portraits of the late Fidel Castro and Che Guevara outside his residence in Havana, Cuba, on Nov. 26, 2016. Alejandro Ernesto, European Pressphoto Agency
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Men hang a Cuban flag at the Foreign Relations Ministry in Havana, Cuba, on Nov. 26, 2016, the day after Fidel Castro's death. Desmond Boylan, AP
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A man watches images of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on TV in Havana on Nov. 26, 2016. Yamil Lage, AFP/Getty Images
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People gather at an office of the Popular Assembly, decorated with a picture of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, after the announcement of Castro's death on national TV by his brother Raul in Havana, Cuba, early Nov. 26, 2016. Ramon Espinosa, AP
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A man rides his tricycle decorated with a picture of Fidel Castro one day after Castro died in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 26, 2016. Desmond Boylan, AP
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A woman smokes a cigar as she reads the newspaper in a street of Havana on Nov. 26, 2016, the day after Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died at age 90. Yamil Lage, AFP/Getty Images
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A car drives by a factory featuring an image of Fidel Castro that reads in Spanish "Socialism or death" in Havana, Cuba, on Nov. 26, 2016. Ramon Espinosa, AP
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A Cuban flag flies at half-staff in Havana, Cuba, on Nov. 26, 2016, Desmond Boylan, AP
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