They Name a Street After Ana María Polo in Hialeah, the Place Where Caso Cerrado Was Filmed

June 26, 2021

The Florida city of Hialeah (USA), adjacent to Miami and with a large Cuban population, recently honored Cuban-American lawyer Ana María Polo, host of the popular Hispanic television program "Caso Cerrado," by naming a street in this city after her.

Dr. Polo, as she is known, was accompanied by the mayor of Hialeah, Carlos Hernández, and the municipal council on the stretch located at the intersection of 72nd and 19 Court, in front of the studio where her television program has been filmed for almost two decades.

The city official of this municipality, where nearly 90% of its population speaks Spanish, enumerated the lawyer's accomplishments and highlighted her figure as a Cuban and defender of the Latin community.

"This street was my home, I made lasting friendships here and, most importantly of all that, is that through a program that was filmed right here, in Hialeah, we Latinos came together, reflected our conflicts and confronted them in a very human and different way from what we were accustomed to seeing in other court programs," said Dr. Ana María Polo emotionally, according to reporting by the newspaper El Nuevo Herald.

Polo expressed her pride in receiving such a special recognition from the Hialeah mayor's office and wanted to share it with her entire "Caso Cerrado" program team.

The lawyer is recognized as one of the most influential and prestigious personalities within the Hispanic community and has more than twenty years of experience in the media.

Her program, "Caso Cerrado," nominated for an Emmy, is the longest-running court program on Spanish-language television.

Polo has been awarded several prizes, such as the Mike Leland Award for her humanitarian commitment, in addition to having been nominated for the Emmy award and named the first Hispanic ambassador of the national non-profit organization Stand Up to Cancer.