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Thousands of mourners line the streets of downtown Miami, as a funeral procession for Celia Cruz makes its way from the Freedom Tower to Gesu Catholic Church, where a memorial Mass was celebrated Saturday, July 19, 2003. Tens of thousands of mourners lined the streets Saturday to pay their respects to salsa legend and Cuban exile Celia Cruz. (AP Photo/Richard Patterson)

Pedro Knight(top C), husband of the late salsa legend Celia Cruz, waves to fans, next to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg(L), as he leaves St. Patrick's Cathedral behind his wifes casket.(AFP/Tim Clary)

Fidel Castro - Cuba

[Cincinatus' Wife]

At Calle Ocho Celia Cruz, the queen of salsa, performs at the Calle Ocho festival in Little Havana, March of 2002. (Sun-Sentinel/Anastasia Walsh)

[MattinNJ]

Unlike so many celebrities of the modern era, Ms. Cruz knew firsthand of the atrocities of communism in Cuba

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