Miami’s 100-year-old Freedom Tower will get a major renovation with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announcing he will give $25 million to the project in the state’s 2022 budget proposal. The Freedom Tower has “served as a beacon of hope for the thousands of Cubans who escaped their homeland to find freedom,” DeSantis said at a news conference on Nov. 15. The 289-foot tower was built in the early 1920s to house the Miami News.  But, in 1962, it was renamed the Freedom Tower as it became a center for the federal Cuban Refugee Assistance Program to provide aid for thousands of Cubans who fled the island nation after Fidel Castro’s communist regime took over in 1959. The tower became known as the “Ellis Island of the South.” The building changed hands throughout the years and in 2004 the property was sold to Pedro Martin, a prominent Cuban American business leader …