Exiled child returns to Miami’s Freedom Tower: ‘They massacred my teddy bear’

Having fled Castro's Cuba at age five, Jorge Malagon Marquez honors the landmark reopening in September

Jorge Malagon Marquez'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.