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Fidel Castro

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2011

    Shawn Loftis, Globe-Trotting Gay Porn Star, Plays Dictator F/M/K With New Times

    ​Two weeks ago, Riptide broke the story that Shawn Loftis -- known on film as Collin O'Neal -- was canned from his Miami Dade Public Schools substitute teaching job when a principal found out about his prolific gay porn career. Loftis tells us he still plans to fight the firing. In the meant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    Fidel Castro's Birthday Present: A Big Transsexual Wedding

    ​Fidel Castro turned 85 this past Saturday, and the celebrations were mostly typical. Supporters held a giant concert featuring dozens of musical acts, but Castro himself spent the day in seclusion, which prompted rumors he might have been too feeble for a public appearance. Miami exiles, meanwhil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Fidel Castro Criticizes Obama Over Bin Laden "Assassination"

    ​Nine months ago, former Cuban President Fidel Castro said Osama bin Laden was a CIA agent who never failed to pop up when George W. Bush needed a foil. "Bush never lacked for bin Laden's support," Castro said at the time. "He was a subordinate."Now that bin Laden is gone, however, el comanda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Hugo Chávez Calls Cuban Reforms 'Refreshing'

    walksydneystreets.netRefreshing! Like Cuba's economic reforms​Over the past decade, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has become the Cuban government's number one supporter. His oil subsidies help keep the embargoed island afloat and, in return, he welcomes Cuban doctors to Caracas's poor, inner-c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Castro Death Meter: Fidel is 88% Dead, 79% Insane

    ​What is up with El Comandante these days? Have Fidel Castro's handlers been slipping amphetamines into his banana pudding? Take a look at the rampage he's been on in the last month or so:

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    RPOF Says Alex Sink is Basically Florida's Fidel Castro

    ​Fidel Castro took some time out of his busy schedule of not dying to pen a piece for a state newspaper that said President Obama and the Democrat's recent passage of health care reform is a "miracle." Well, the Republican Party of Florida took time out of their busy schedule of basically giv ... More >>

  • News

    August 6, 2009

    He Buried Che

    Gustavo Villoldo hunted the revolutionary leader. His new weapon: a $1 billion judgment against Fidel.

  • News

    January 17, 2008

    Bay of Pigs Vets Fight for Home

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

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2007

    Fidel? Dead Again?

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

  • Calendar

    June 22, 2006

    Our Favorite Son

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

  • Music

    January 12, 2006

    Evil, Done Doggy-Style

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

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2005

    Art Flicks

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

  • News

    August 12, 2004

    Letters from the Issue of August12-18, 2002

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

  • Diversions

    May 13, 2004

    BEST SPANISH-LANGUAGE RADIO PERSONALITY

    Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero

  • City Life

    May 15, 2003

    BEST PRANK PHONE CALL

    "Hello, Fidel!"

  • News

    April 10, 2003

    Dialogueros

    Caught between Iraq and a hard-line place

  • News

    February 20, 2003

    Dialogue: The Final Frontier

    When trade sanctions, bluster, and a few bombs don't work, you gotta try something else

  • News

    April 25, 2002

    Letters from the Issue of April 25, 2002

    The Everglades, dead fish, and dictators

  • News

    April 11, 2002

    Heretics in the House

    They came to Miami. They gathered publicly. They showed no fear. And they trashed the Cuba embargo.

  • News

    April 4, 2002

    Blowup

    You've seen the revolutionary photo, now here's the soap opera

  • News

    March 28, 2002

    Incessant Static

    Every year millions of your dollars are pumped into Radio and TV Martí. What do you get in return?

  • News

    December 20, 2001

    Terrorists, but Our Terrorists

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

  • News

    July 5, 2001

    Spies in Miami, Commandos in Cuba

    If you disagree with what they do, why defend their right to do it?

  • News

    April 12, 2001

    Revelation 19.63

    For nearly four decades the CIA has kept secret the identity of a Miami agent who may have known too much too early about Lee Harvey Oswald

  • News

    February 15, 2001

    Carlos Cruz's Second Act

    In his native Cuba he was a film star. Here in the States he's just another car salesman with a dream.

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Rick ... or Red?

    Could Rick Sanchez, Miami's most notorious journalistic windbag, actually be an agent of Fidel Castro?

  • News

    May 11, 2000

    The Great Divide

    Correspondence from our readers

  • News

    March 16, 2000

    Cuba Ordinance 101

    A New Times guide to busting the county's Cuba law

  • News

    December 16, 1999

    Riptide

    Delusions of candor

  • News

    June 24, 1999

    Welcome to the Bureaucracy:

    Why Cubans Call the Ministry of Culture the "Mystery of Culture"

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    Cuba's Second Revolution

    Before he was banished from his homeland, Diosmel Rodriguez sowed the seeds of revolt among Cuban farmers

  • News

    December 3, 1998

    Fidel's Kind of Flick

    A pair of Miami filmmakers head to Sundance with a new motion picture about a congressman turned Castro spy

  • News

    November 19, 1998

    Letters

    A pair of Miami filmmakers head to Sundance with a new motion picture about a congressman turned Castro spy

  • News

    November 12, 1998

    Twice Exiled

    Bernardo Benes helped free hundreds of Cuban political prisoners twenty years ago. Hardliners in Miami hate him for it.

  • News

    August 27, 1998

    Alpha Males

    Forty years after Castro's revolution, the men of Alpha 66 talk tough but sometimes snooze

  • News

    April 30, 1998

    Miami's Man in Havana

    Unrepentant leftist, friend to Castro, and loyal Cuban, Max Lesnik continues to defy the ideological mandates of el exilio

  • News

    November 6, 1997

    The Rise and Fall of Miamiland

    Way back in 1998 the citizens of Dade County rose up and declared themselves an independent republic. Then the hangover hit.

  • News

    May 8, 1997

    Castro's Birthday Bash

    Being named as an invited guest would be bad enough, but imagine having your Miami phone number included

  • News

    April 17, 1997

    The Fidel Fixation

    Exactly 36 years ago the Central Intelligence Agency blew it at the Bay of Pigs. For an encore it created the biggest commando operation in U.S. history -- right here in South Florida. It's time for a sentimental tour.

  • News

    February 13, 1997

    Overthrow on the Radio

    With a vengeance born of extremists, the radical La Voz de la Resistencia show goes straight for Castro's jugular

  • News

    December 19, 1996

    Eyewitnesses to History

    Marion and Orlando de Cardenas aided Fidel Castro when the Cuban revolution was still a daydream, not a bad dream

  • News

    January 11, 1996

    The Man Who Would Be Fidel

    For more than fifteen years, master Castro imitator Armando Roblan has been sending up El Tirano

  • News

    November 2, 1995

    Capitalist or Commie?

    How a Miami businessman got rich doing business with Cuba - and lived to shout about it

  • News

    September 21, 1994

    Back on Top

    You may admire him or you may find him disgusting. But at least you've got to hand it to him: Jorge Mas Canosa has got clout.

  • News

    May 18, 1994

    The Man and the Microphone

    In the turbulent and often virulent world of Spanish-language radio, two things are certain: Fidel will be the debate, and Tomas Garcia Fuste will prevail

  • News

    May 4, 1994

    No Peace for Paula

    In Cuba she was a symbol, the Madonna of the Counterrevolution. But in Miami, it's a different kind of fight for Paula Valiente.

  • News

    August 4, 1993

    Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, founder of Cambio Cubano, confronts a force as powerful as Castro: The exiles who condemn his moderate views

    In Cuba she was a symbol, the Madonna of the Counterrevolution. But in Miami, it's a different kind of fight for Paula Valiente.

  • News

    September 4, 1991

    Get Me Rewrite!

    Diario las Americas published a propagandized version of a dispatch from Havana. Cuban officials blamed it on the writer.

  • News

    November 21, 1990

    Cuba Over and Out

    Diario las Americas published a propagandized version of a dispatch from Havana. Cuban officials blamed it on the writer.

  • News

    November 21, 1990

    To Air is Human

    Diario las Americas published a propagandized version of a dispatch from Havana. Cuban officials blamed it on the writer.

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