‘Adventurism has had its day’: speedboat shootout leaves Miami’s exiled Cubans bewildered
<p>Few clues as to how 10 heavily armed men intercepted on stolen speedboat came together from across Florida or what they hoped to achieve </p><p>Foot traffic was slow outside the <a href="https://www.miamiandbeaches.com/l/arts-and-culture/bay-of-pigs-brigade-2506-museum/52808">Bay of Pigs Museum</a> on Calle Ocho in Miami’s Little Havana neighbourhood. A few tourists in T-shirts and shorts bypassed the gallery dedicated to one of the most <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/17/cuba-love-obama-bay-of-pigs-anniversary">fateful days in Cuba’s history</a> and headed instead to nearby Máximo Gómez Park to take photographs of Cuban exiles playing dominoes.</p><p>This is the street at the heart of the Cuban expat community of more than 1 million people where tens of thousands partied through the night in November 2016 to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/26/the-old-man-is-dead-fidel-castros-death-sparks-celebrations-on-streets-of-miami">celebrate the death</a> of Fidel Castro, and where they gathered in sorrow almost exactly 30 years ago to mourn four Cuban-Americans <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/brothers-to-the-rescue-shootdown-cuba-florida/">shot down</a> by the communist country’s air force as they conducted a mission for the humanitarian exile group Brothers to the Rescue.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/miami-exiled-cubans-speedboat-shootout">Continue reading...</a>
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