Many in South Florida have been seeking comfort in leaving Fidel Castro messages on a wall in Wynwood.
"We had written on the top of the wall 'Fidel Castro rot in hell' and then people got all excited about writing it," said Regina McDonald, with the Give Good Works Thrift Store.
The wall facing North Miami Avenue at 24th Street became a platform for people to vent this past weekend after the death of Castro.
"So we put out some paint and they came up and they wrote 'Viva,' 'Fidel,' 'Goodbye, we hope we have some freedom now,' all different kinds of things they wrote on the wall," McDonald said.
A line of people waited for their turn and a marker. Some of the other comments included "praying for a free Cuba," "It's about time," and "Finally 2016 got something right."
"Yeah, we didn't actually expect that at all. There was one guy who pulled over off the street, he said he's been here since he was 18 years old and he's 55 and that Fidel ruined his life and he wondered if he could write something," McDonald said.
The wall belongs to the thrift store and the money they make is donated to the needy. This isn't the first time they've allowed the public to take it over.
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"We had the Hillary 'H' sign with the line through it and people came and they would write on that. People would be positive about her, negative about Trump, vice versa," McDonald said.
And even though the comments eventually get erased, the store says it's happy to let people say what's on their mind.
"We like to keep the community engaged, let people have freedom of speech which is really a fun thing that we do in Wynwood with the graffiti," McDonald said.
