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Hugo Chavez, Like Lenin Before Him, Will Have His Dead Body Permanently Displayed

During his political life, Hugo Chavez took more than a few pages out of the playbook of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, and the emulation will continue even in death.To this day, Lenin's embalmed body is still on display in Red Square in Moscow. Now, acting Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro announced ... More >>

Venezuelans Celebrate in Doral Following Death of Hugo Chavez

Venezuelans partied late into the night in Doral following yesterday's announcement that Hugo Chávez had died from cancer. Restaurant El Arepazo II, on the corner of NW 39th Street and 79th Avenue, was swarmed with more than 300 people waving flags, eating arepas, and sipping Polar.But nearly all t ... More >>

Hugo Chavez Is "Battling For His Life," Venezuelan VP Confirms

OK, so those rumors flying around Twitter that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has been brain dead since last weekend may not be true. But that doesn't mean Chavez is recovering well from his latest bout with cancer.Venezuela's vice president confirmed this morning that Chavez is in fact "battling ... More >>

Hugo Chavez Considering Asylum Request From Syrian Strongman Bashar al-Assad, Report Says

If you're a hated, blood-soaked Middle Eastern tyrant whose nation has been ripped asunder by a devastating civil war that's about to topple you from power, where on Earth do you flee?In the case of Syria's Bashar Al-Assad, the answer might just be Venezuela, where Hugo Chavez has remained a steadfa ... More >>

Hugo Chavez: "I Would Vote For Obama"

While Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is just days away from what might be the toughest election of his career, he's decided to lend some very much unwelcome support to another presidential campaign.Yes, the controversial Venezuelan leader has all but officially endorsed Barack Obama. Uh, well, at ... More >>

Fur Coat Talks Debut Album and Making EDM in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela

"You and I are like cocaine and ketamine -- I just wanna make you high," sings Cari Golden on "You and I," the insidiously catchy 2012 breakout hit from Venezuelan DJ-production duo Fur Coat. And with such provocative party favor references in its lyrics, what hedonistic club rat could resist the re ... More >>

Mana at American Airlines Arena May 11

La Casa de Maná: The Mexican Crew's Drama y Luz World Tour Rules Latin Pop-Rock

Win free tickets to Maná's concert at the AAA on May 11. In 2006, Latin pop-rock powerhouse Maná had been recording and touring non-stop for more than 20 years. And it was time for a break. So the band took a five-year hiatus to prepare 2011's Drama y Luz (Drama and Light) before finally returnin ... More >>

Kids Pose With Assault Rifles To Support Hugo Chavez

​Newt Gingrich isn't the only portly revolutionary stirring up trouble while running for president. Hugo Chavez, the Fidel-worshiping steward of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, has his own tough re-election fight on his hands at the moment.Instead of annoying robocalls, Hugo's supporters took a ... More >>

Carlos Zambrano Joins Ozzie Guillen In Miami, Giving Marlins 93 Percent of MLB's Crazy

The Miami Marlins inked a deal last night for once-explosive, possibly still insane Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano. With Ozzie Guillen already signed on to manage the club, the two most unhinged personalities in baseball will call Little Havana home next season.Scientists contacted by Riptide are stil ... More >>

Bunnie Cakes: Gluten-Free, Vegan Love Cakes by Family Gal Mariana Cortez

​Even though, or maybe because, I was always a really really tall girl, I've always gravitated toward tiny things. I love miniature doll furniture, pocket-sized notebooks, glitter, and as a child of the '80s, Shrinky Dinks.So does vegan baker Mariana Cortez, who at 29, is the exact same age as I a ... More >>

Sandra Gamarra's mystical journey at the Bass Museum

Will Hugo Chavez Meet the Same Fate as Mubarak?

​After weeks of tumultuous protests, embattled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is widely expected to step down as soon as tonight. Will other "democratically elected" presidents-for-life across the globe soon face similar fates? Now that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has announced plans to run for re-e ... More >>

Carlos Andres Perez Not Heading Back To Venezuela As New Tug-Of-War Erupts Over Body

​Just when it looked like ex-Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez was headed back to Caracas for burial, a brand new round of fighting between his wife and mistress has again left his body in a Miami funeral home limbo.Cecilia Matos, his longtime companion in Miami and his daughters now deny t ... More >>

Carlos Andres Perez, Ex-Venezuelan Prez, Has Burial Delayed While Wife and Mistress Argue Over the Gravesite (Update)

Perez led Venezuela until 1992, when Hugo Chavez ousted him. His mistress pledges his body won't return until Chavez is gone.​After a week of kind eulogies for Carlos Andres Perez -- including our own arguing the world would be a better place if he could have just held off the coup-crazy Hugo Chav ... More >>

Hugo Chávez Annouces Another Run for President, Accuses Globovisión Boss Guillermo Zuloaga of $100 Million Plot to Kill Him

Hugo could be in office long after we are all dead...​Brace yourself. This news is as newsy and shocking as it gets: Hugo Chávez is running for president... again.The Venezuelan comandante has been in office for 12 years and has said he plans to stay there -- elections willing -- for another deca ... More >>

Mad Scientist Leo Mascheroni Caught Trying To Sell Nuclear Bomb To Venezuela

Does this look like a man who should have a nuclear bomb?​P. Leonardo Mascheroni had a simple dream: earning billions of dollars in government funding to build a gigantic laser beam that would create stable nuclear fusion and limitless, free energy for the world. So simple! But the government woul ... More >>

Hit-and-run driver Carlos Bertonatti isn't the only troublemaker in his family

Musician Carlos Bertonatti Charged in Fatal DUI Key Biscayne Crash; Bikers Outraged

An up-and-coming Miami pop singer with slick looks and a Sony recording contract has been charged with vehicular homicide in a horrific hit-and-run crash near Key Biscayne yesterday. via Rolling Stone Police say Carlos Bertonatti was drunk when he plowed into a cyclist on Sunday.​Carlos Ber ... More >>

Musician Carlos Bertonatti Charged In Fatal DUI Key Biscayne Crash; Bikers Outraged

via Rolling StonePolice say Carlos Bertonatti was drunk when he plowed into a cyclist on Sunday.​An up-and-coming Miami pop singer with slick looks and a Sony recording contract has been charged with vehicular homicide in a horrific hit-and-run crash near Key Biscayne yesterday.Carlos Bertonatti, ... More >>

An Ode to Jorge Julio

Where will he suck next? For a few years, I've harbored a strange obsession with Major League journeyman reliever Jorge Julio. Not because he's very good, mind you. In fact, the current Milwaukee Brewer is one of the most consistently awful players to make a big-league roster every year. His ... More >>

The Fall of a Titan

A downtown Miami firm allegedly helped build an $8 billion Ponzi scheme. It could have been stopped.

Genius of Despair

Photographer Luis Brito pays homage to a Latin American art god at this Design District show.

Bay of Pigs Vets Fight for Home

Betrayed by the U.S. government and their own country, they want to be remembered.

Letters from the Issue of October 18, 2007

"We thought we were going to see the end of Chávez. Unfortunately the revolt didn't work, and now I know why."

Artmageddon!

Don't even try to see it all. We've got Basel's best.

Newsroom or Classroom?

Old newspaper pros quit the FIU journalism school as academicians run the show

All Around the Neighborhood

A quick look at our amigos from Toronto to Tierra del Fuego

The People's Bank is Now Open

You're smart and hard-working, but you don't qualify for the loan that could mean success

Righteous Bombers?

Miami's non-Muslim mullahs are ready to forgive Castro's accused 2000 assassins

End of Camelot

Songwriters in the Round leaves a legacy and many memories in Miami

Ruben Blades

Mundo "Sony International"

Under the Table and Off the Books

If you're desperate for work, if you must see a doctor, if you need shelter, Miami's shadow economy will provide

Liberating the Truth

A Colombian actor decides to dump his role and become Símon Bolívar

Terrorists, but Our Terrorists

Where can terrorists find safe harbor? If you're of the Cuban exile variety, right here.

Letters from the Issue of November 22, 2001

The Great Art Debate, Part 2: This letter not intended for stupefied couch potatoes

Fidel Made Them Do It

Posada Carriles is in jail -- again -- for plotting against Castro. And again, he's sure it's Castro's fault.

Sounds Like True Love

Balladeer Ricardo Montaner never tires of romance

Letters

The Quintana Plan

Exile architect Nicolas Quintana hopes to save Havana, the city of his birth, from the perils of overdevelopment

Gallery Walkout

Voices of the Islands

Local author Bob Antoni casts a literary net and pulls in a long-overdue compilation of Caribbean writers

Calendar for the week

Subtropical Homesick Blues

Cortes the Killer

Can a Spanish dancer take flamenco into the new millennium?

Livin' Lara

Nil and Beluga Blue ride out the storm of stardom

A Sea of Trouble

For 66 days Bill and Simonne Butler drifted together on a tiny raft in the Pacific. After they were finally rescued and came back to Miami, they drifted apart.

The Sweet Buy-and-Buy

Minding the Restore

Dirty Money