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Libya

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Cuba's High-Speed Internet Link To Venezuela Was a Giant Lie

    Last summer, millions of Cubans were deliriously ready to blow their meager earnings on badly knit Che dolls on Etsy, flood Facebook with Fidel-praising status updates and, yeah, just download mucho, mucho porn. High-speed Internet, they were told, was finally coming to the masses via a 1,000-mile l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Dead Prez's M1 Talks Revolutionary Culture as a Way of Life

    ​Revolutionary hip-hop is alive in Miami. This Saturday night, Dead Prez's M1 and Thirstin Howl, Mecca AKA Grimo, P-Doe, FLO, Maybach Latino, Haiti Blues, Tom Larock, and PP Armstrong are gonna take over Moksha in Little Haiti to celebrate Black History Month, and fight for a better future for hu ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 2, 2012

    Magnus Sigurdarson at the Dorsch: Rotating camels and a blond Bedouin in Opa-locka

    ​Revolutionary hip-hop is alive in Miami. This Saturday night, Dead Prez's M1 and Thirstin Howl, Mecca AKA Grimo, P-Doe, FLO, Maybach Latino, Haiti Blues, Tom Larock, and PP Armstrong are gonna take over Moksha in Little Haiti to celebrate Black History Month, and fight for a better future for hu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Castro, Chavez Make Top Ten List of World's Worst Dictators

    ​We just usually read Parade magazine for Howard Huge cartoons and "Ask Marilyn," but the magazine actually keeps a somewhat frequently updated list of the world's worst dictators. For the first time this year, Raúl Castro and Hugo Chávez made the top ten list.

  • Music

    November 10, 2011

    Tinariwen at Grand Central November 10

    ​We just usually read Parade magazine for Howard Huge cartoons and "Ask Marilyn," but the magazine actually keeps a somewhat frequently updated list of the world's worst dictators. For the first time this year, Raúl Castro and Hugo Chávez made the top ten list.

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Tinariwen Brings Desert Rebel Rock to Grand Central November 10

    ​​While there's reason to rage against the media saturation inherent to the internet (e.g. too many chill/witch/triangle clone bands uploading from their bedrooms), you've got to celebrate the World Wide Web for the incomparable access it grants to musical worlds previously impossible to connect ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    Comparing Barack Obama to LeBron James Is the Latest Conservative Zinger

    ​Back in 2004, when Barack Obama allegedly compared himself to LeBron James, little did he know he'd be setting himself up for a string of conservative zingers that shows no sign of stopping. Former Florida Republican congressman turned MSNBC host Joe Scarborough became the latest right-winger to ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 1, 2011

    Describe and Illuminate

    ​Back in 2004, when Barack Obama allegedly compared himself to LeBron James, little did he know he'd be setting himself up for a string of conservative zingers that shows no sign of stopping. Former Florida Republican congressman turned MSNBC host Joe Scarborough became the latest right-winger to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Seun Kuti Talks From Africa With Fury: Rise and His Father Fela's Legacy

    ​As far as Seun Kuti is concerned, art should inspire society. And it should be political. "The fact that music is no longer as political as it used to be, say in '60s and '70s, is one of the problems we have with youth education and development today," Kuti says. "Because most youths don't eve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Seun Kuti Talks Power, Politics, Africa, and American Intervention in Libya

    ​Outspoken and uncensored, Seun Kuti has no fear. In a time of timid musicians who've been trained to keep their mouths shut and tow the PR line, the Nigerian sax man and heir to his father Fela's Afrobeat throne is perfectly willing to tell the raw, real truth, whether talking power, politics, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Where in the Hell is Hugo Chavez?

    Help us find Hugo.​Where in the hell is Hugo Chavez?The normally voluble Venezuelan president has been missing for nearly a month. The official explanation is that he's recovering from surgery to remove a pelvic abscess in Cuba, but rumors abound.Is he pissing into the Mississippi to make it flood ... More >>

  • News

    May 19, 2011

    Guns online: No permit needed

    Help us find Hugo.​Where in the hell is Hugo Chavez?The normally voluble Venezuelan president has been missing for nearly a month. The official explanation is that he's recovering from surgery to remove a pelvic abscess in Cuba, but rumors abound.Is he pissing into the Mississippi to make it flood ... More >>

  • News

    May 12, 2011

    Allen West, uncut

    A candid conversation with South Florida's rising Tea Party star.

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2011

    Soldier On

    A candid conversation with South Florida's rising Tea Party star.

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Lynn Dannheisser Confuses Italian-Named Law Firm With Her Favorite Pasta Joint

    ​Lynn Dannheisser, the royally paid Surfside town attorney who has declared a bizarre war on bloggers -- comparing them to the KKK at a recent commission meeting -- is fast becoming Riptide's favorite public official. It's her unhinged quality that makes her so entertaining. Surfside is like her v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Tim Hetherington, Director of Restrepo Doc About a South Florida Soldier's Death, Killed in Libya

    ​Tim Hetherington earned an Oscar nomination last year for Restrepo, his harrowing, front-line documentary about an Army platoon mired in a deadly Afghanistan valley. The picture is named for medic Juan "Doc" Restrepo, a Pembroke Pines native whose death during a firefight inspires the rest of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Future Marlins Ballpark Setbacks: Japanese Steel, Koi Fish?

    Future Marlins Ballpark​The Florida Marlins kickoff their 2011 season against the New York Mets tonight, and while the game marks the last, first game the Fish will play at Sun Life Stadium, their home tank over the past 18-years, it may be the final home opener the Marlins have until 2013. A so ... More >>

  • Film

    March 10, 2011

    The Interrupters: Gang-bangers interrupted

    Future Marlins Ballpark​The Florida Marlins kickoff their 2011 season against the New York Mets tonight, and while the game marks the last, first game the Fish will play at Sun Life Stadium, their home tank over the past 18-years, it may be the final home opener the Marlins have until 2013. A so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    Bright Eyes' The People's Key U.S. Tour Opener at the Fillmore Miami Beach, March 2

    Photo by Ian WitlenBright Eyes' Conor Oberst.​See the full 24-photo Bright Eyes slideshow. Bright Eyes With Cursive The Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Better Than: Being abducted by extraterrestrials for an impromptu probe party. Maybe it's a product of extreme boredom and idle im ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Lat Am Round-Up: Leaders Play Game of Libyan Hot Potato

    Agência Brasil via Wikimedia CommonsHugo Chavez: democratically elected, but a supporter of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi​What do Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and Fidel Castro have in common? Berets, cigars, military fatigues, state-controlled economies... Errr... scratch that. This could take ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Protests Staged in Cuba, Miami to Commemorate Hunger Striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo

    ​Some 130 dissidents were arrested in Cuba, while several hundred demonstrators hit the streets of Miami to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the death of hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo. The arrests on the communist island included the reported harassment and roughing up of a doz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Cuban Artist to Commemorate Hunger Striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo's Death with Surprise Work

    ​To commemorate the first anniversary of hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo's death today, Cuban artist Geandy Pavón, who has projected images of the dissident on Cuban government buildings, has something big up his sleeve. And he promises it will be "legal, creative and have major impact." "I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Cuba Remains Protest Free on Anniversary of Hunger Striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo's Death

    ​As expected, the Cuban government has been doing a bang-up job keeping protests from flaring into major demonstrations on the first anniversary Wednesday of the death of hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo. The anniversary coincides with major upheavals in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. But the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Fidel Castro Thinks NATO Will Invade Libya for Oil

    ​As Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has gone straight up tyrant in his country by ordering the killing of protesters seeking an end to his rule, some of his close allies across Latin America seem to be sticking with him. In fact, Fidel Castro thinks that the protests will be used as an excuse for th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Gerald Posner Plagiarized in Why America Slept and Secrets of the Kingdom, Research Shows

    Photo by Bill Cooke Gerald Posner​In this week's Miami New Times, we write about new evidence that Gerald Posner plagiarized dozens of passages in his 2003 book Why American Slept and in 2005's Secrets of the Kingdom. After the jump, you can check out all the proof. But first, a little back ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    U.S. Won't Grant HIV-Positive Cuban Asylum

    viaGive us your poor, your tired, but apparently not your HIV We don't have to familiarize any locals with the wet foot, dry foot policy, aka The Cuban Adjustment Act. Any Cuban who makes it to American soil is allowed to seek residency. Well, not any Cuban migrant. Not if that Cuban is HIV . & ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 19, 2004

    One Name, Many Tastes

    Elia makes "Mediterranean" cuisine make sense

  • News

    February 13, 2003

    Argentina, 1; U.S., 0

    Last week's big soccer match at the Orange Bowl was about more than sports

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    Letters from the Issue of December 26, 2002

    The antiwar battle continues

  • News

    January 10, 2002

    The Wake-Up Call

    Hamas is as close as Ecuador. And they're arguing about American targets.

  • 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

    October 4, 2001

    Paradise Lost, Again

    As Miami Beach prepares for life in wartime, it's on its own

  • 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

    October 12, 2000

    The Assassin Next Door, Part 2

    Chile demands that former secret police agent Armando Fernandez Larios face justice for his role in the murderous Caravan of Death. But he seems to be safe in Miami -- thanks to the U.S. government.

  • News

    June 29, 2000

    Plowing Under the Cuba Embargo

    A Spokane politician wants to make Castro pay -- literally

  • News

    November 11, 1999

    A Bad News Brother

    Miami Beach Mayor Neisen Kasdin's bro Scott has trouble like you wouldn't believe

  • News

    August 20, 1998

    He Made Dade

    Battling cancer, veteran pol Dante Fascell talks of war, Cuba, and a lifetime of putting Miami on the map

  • News

    August 6, 1998

    Passport to Paradox

    The Cuban embargo is supposed to be getting tougher on travelers, but it's just getting weirder

  • Film

    August 21, 1997

    Strong Women Still MIA

    The Cuban embargo is supposed to be getting tougher on travelers, but it's just getting weirder

  • News

    July 25, 1996

    The King Who Would Be Mayor

    His platform is his life. His campaign manager is God. His goal is to be your mayor.

  • News

    February 24, 1993

    Meet the Candidate

    The Rev. Clennon King is unique. Period.

  • News

    February 13, 1991

    Back from Baghdad

    The Rev. Clennon King is unique. Period.

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