A New Year’s Eve concert in Miami sparked outrage among residents who claimed that the taxpayer-funded festivities were strictly catered to a Spanish-speaking audience.
Bayfront Park, an 32-acre public space in downtown Miami, has hosted the event for more than three decades.
A press release ahead of the event referred to it as ‘the largest Hispanic New Year’s celebration in the United States.’
‘We’re all taxpayers and it’s not a solely one group New Year’s Eve event,’ Dr. Jeffrey Dorfman, a Miami resident, told NBC Miami. ‘It’s not a private event.’
The party included a long list of performances by platinum-selling recording artists and Latin Grammy-winning icons.
Some of the artists that hit the stage included Willy Chirino, Arturo Sandoval, Chino y Nacho, Luis Enrique, Gente de Zona, Maribel Guardia and Aymée Nuviola, CBS News reported.
Mexican artist Fedro, along with his mariachi band, welcomed the new year on stage once the confetti drop and firework display concluded shortly after …