The annual Three Kings parade blessed Little Havana yet again this year with its festive attire. Parade attendees and community members lined up down SW Eighth Street, better known as Calle Ocho, to view the parade. Take a look at the scene through the eyes of staff photographer Carl Juste.
Three camels are lead eastbound on Calle Ocho by the three kings during the Miami’s 50th Annual Three Kings Parade, also known as the “Desfile de los Reyes,” a vibrant celebration that takes place honoring the Feast of the Epiphany, paraded on SW 8th Street from 27th to 17th Avenue, on Sunday, December 11, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
Members of the Prymus Angels All Stars perform at the Three King Parade. Miami’s 50th Annual Three Kings Parade, also known as the “Desfile de los Reyes,” a vibrant celebration that takes place honoring the Feast of the Epiphany, paraded on SW 8th Street from 17th to 27th Avenue, on Sunday, December 11, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
Cuban Folklore instructors and dancers Glenda Mujer Espanza, left, and Bobby Ramirez dance as musicians conduct a sound check prior to performing as Miami’s 50th Annual Three Kings Parade, also known as the “Desfile de los Reyes,” a vibrant celebration that takes place honoring the Feast of the Epiphany, paraded on SW 8th Street from 27th to 17th Avenue, on Sunday, December 11, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
Mario Figueroa, 34, left, check on his daughter Marianna, 1, as she adjusts her posture while the pair waited for the start of the parade. Miami’s 50th Annual Three Kings Parade, also known as the “Desfile de los Reyes,” a vibrant celebration that takes place honoring the Feast of the Epiphany, paraded on SW 8th Street from 27th to 17th Avenue, on Sunday, December 11, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
Grand Marshall Migbelis Castellano, a Univision TV personality, waves the Venezuelan flag as enthusiastically engages with the crowd. Miami’s 50th Annual Three Kings Parade, also known as the “Desfile de los Reyes,” a vibrant celebration that takes place honoring the Feast of the Epiphany, paraded on SW 8th Street from 17th to 27th Avenue, on Sunday, December 11, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
Three camels are lead eastbound on Calle Ocho by the three kings during the Miami’s 50th Annual Three Kings Parade, also known as the “Desfile de los Reyes,” a vibrant celebration that takes place honoring the Feast of the Epiphany, paraded on SW 8th Street from 27th to 17th Avenue, on Sunday, December 11, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
Miami’s 50th Annual Three Kings Parade, also known as the “Desfile de los Reyes,” a vibrant celebration that takes place honoring the Feast of the Epiphany, paraded on SW 8th Street from 17th to 27th Avenue, on Sunday, December 11, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
Miami High marching band performs at the Miami’s 50th Annual Three Kings Parade, also known as the “Desfile de los Reyes,” a vibrant celebration that takes place honoring the Feast of the Epiphany, marched on SW 8th Street from 27th to 17th Avenue, on Sunday, December 11, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
Carolina Florez, 29, dances along with the Miami High marching band as the band paraded in the Miami’s 50th Annual Three Kings Parade, also known as the “Desfile de los Reyes,” a vibrant celebration that takes place honoring the Feast of the Epiphany, marched eastbound on SW 8th Street from 22nd towards 17th Avenue, on Sunday, December 11, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
Acenet Antonella, 2, right, runs playfully as Dylan Taylor Vega, 4, blows bubbles with a “bubble gun.” Miami’s 50th Annual Three Kings Parade, also known as the “Desfile de los Reyes,” a vibrant celebration that takes place honoring the Feast of the Epiphany, paraded on SW 8th Street from 27th to 17th Avenue, on Sunday, December 11, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
Members City of Miami Police motorcade each to greet the crowd with an extended hand while riding in the Three Kings Parade. Miami’s 50th Annual Three Kings Parade, also known as the “Desfile de los Reyes,” a vibrant celebration that takes place honoring the Feast of the Epiphany, paraded on SW 8th Street from 17th to 27th Avenue, on Sunday, December 11, 2026, in Miami, Florida. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com
Just before a Dollar Tree opened Sunday morning, a woman’s body was found in a store freezer, Miami police said.
Officers got to the discount store, 968 SW Eighth St. in Little Havana, around 8 a.m. after an employee found the woman later identified by police as 32-year-old Helen Massiell Garay Sanchez.
As of Sunday afternoon, “It’s an Unclassified Death,” Miami police officer Michael Vega wrote in an email, but “we have to wait for the medical examiner’s report.”
Crime scene tape and a Miami police car are in front of the Dollar Tree store at 968 SW Eighth St. in Little Havana on Sunday morning, Dec. 14, 2025. A woman’s body was found in the freezer Sunday morning, police say. David J. Neal dneal@miamiherald.com
The Goodwill store next door to the Dollar Tree and the Taco Bell just east did their usual Sunday business. Across Southwest Eighth Street, Little Havana residents recorded police officers and investigating detectives going in and out of the Dollar Tree.
One of the freezers inside the Dollar Tree store in Little Havana where a woman’s body was found on Sunday morning, Dec. 14, 2025. Michael Butler mbutler@miamiherald.com
Sanchez’s grieving family members consoled each other behind crime scene tape in front of the Goodwill store. Once they came from behind the tape, they politely declined to speak with media before leaving once the woman’s body was removed.
The store, which normally opens at 8 a.m., opened shortly after 1 p.m. as crowds stood on the sidewalk chatting amongst each other, waiting to get in. A manager greeted customers as they came in, saying, “Hello” to all, not something normally done at the store.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
This story was originally published December 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM.
Since 1989, David J. Neal’s domain at the Miami Herald has expanded to include writing about Panthers (NHL and FIU), Dolphins, old school animation, food safety, fraud, naughty lawyers, bad doctors and all manner of breaking news. He drinks coladas whole. He does not work Indianapolis 500 Race Day.
MIAMI – Patriotic Venezuelans hoping for the end of a quarter-century of socialist rule met on Sunday at Dolphin Mall in Sweetwater, outside the consulate in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood, at Jose Marti Park in Miami’s Little Havana, and at restaurants in Doral.
The opposition living in Miami-Dade County blames the United Socialist Party of Venezuela for creating the desperation in the oil-rich country that has prompted more than 7.7 million to turn into refugees in need of international assistance.
They blame Nicolás Maduro and his administration for failing economic policies; prevailing corruption; blind-sided alliances with Cuba, Russia, and China; and media and political repression. Their common chant against Maduro’s third term: “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!”
Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores hold up their cell phones after voting on Sunday in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Foto/Fernando Vergara) (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
The ruling party — campaigning with triumphal rallies for Maduro to stay in power for six more years — controlled most of the electoral process. Officials opened the polls from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., on the day Hugo Chávez, Maduro’s predecessor, was born.
Attorney Maureen L. Porras, a Nicaraguan-American Doral councilwoman, stood by Rafael Pineyro to support the persecuted who couldn’t return to Venezuela to participate in the electoral process.
“Today we’re closing a chapter, a chapter of a regime that has killed thousands of people,” said Pineyro, who was born in Caracas, left Venezuela for Miami when he was 15, and was elected to serve as a Doral councilman in 2022.
Chávez, a military strongman with promises of populist reform, was in power for about 14 years, and after dying of cancer in 2013, left his Bolivarian revolution to Maduro, a former bus driver for the Caracas Metro company turned unionist.
The opposition’s presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez waves as he leaves the polling station with his wife Mercedes Lopez, center, and daughter Mariana after voting in presidential elections in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, July 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
The opposition alleges corruption was behind Maduro’s reelection in 2018. The U.S. and a group of allies declared it as illegitimate. Many expected the same from a ruling party obsessed with controlling every branch of government.
Edmundo González, a retired diplomat and academic, was the opposition’s candidate after Maduro’s supporters in the Supreme Court invalidated Maria Corina Machado’s candidacy and banned her from running for office for 15 years.
“I’m doing this for my kids and for my grandchildren; I want them to come back, the ones who are living abroad,” said Amelia Perez, who ventured out to vote in Caracas.
Machado, 56, campaigned for González, 74, a political newcomer who wore a white long-sleeve guayabera and jeans to vote. Their rallies across Venezuela always included the same “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” chant that echoed in Miami-Dade County on Sunday.
Mara Corina Machado hugs a supporter on Sunday in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Foto/Matas Delacroix) (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)Venezuelans wait outside a polling station at the Andres Bello school on Sunday in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Foto/Cristian Hernandez) (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
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