A Miami-Dade judge has awarded $94.6 million in damages to the family of Aldo Vera Sr., a former senior Havana police official murdered in Puerto Rico in 1976, allegedly by Cuban government agents.

Circuit Court Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr. on Thursday signed an order awarding the judgment to the Vera family -- the latest wrongful death claim against the Cuban government in a South Florida courtroom.

Though large, the amount pales in comparison with the almost $253 million award given by a Miami-Dade jury April 4 to the family of Rafael del Pino Siero, a former Fidel Castro friend who died in a Cuban prison in 1977.

Vera was a founding member of The Fourth Republic, an anti-Castro movement.