Luis Posada Carriles

Cuban Radio Is Dying Because of Aging Hardliners and Miami's Changing Market

Five Cubans Ozzie Guillen Should Praise at His Press Conference Today

Poor Ozzie Guillen. Baseball season just got started and already the Miami Marlins skipper has inserted his foot in his mouth.The controversial Venezuelan born manager had the audacity to praise Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in an upcoming issue of Time magazine and all hell has broken loose in Miami' ... More >>

Luis Posada Carriles Could Be Extradited to Panama for Allegedly Plotting to Kill Fidel

​Former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles may have beaten charges in Texas last year, but the aging anti-communist operative ain't in the clear just yet.A Panamanian lawyer requested his extradition today on charges that he plotted to kill then-Cuban president Fidel Castro while in Panama back in 200 ... More >>

Letters from the issue of May 19, 2011

Editor Chuck Strouse Wins Sigma Delta Chi, Top Columns in Nation

Miami New Times editor Chuck Strouse has won the Sigma Delta Chi award for the nation's best columns in a nondaily publication.Strouse, a codger who writes so seldom that many people don't even know he can hold a pen, topped all entries for five of his columns, including three about Louis Maxwell, a ... More >>

Julio Robaina Shows Off His Anti-Castro Colors In Campaign Report

Luis Posada Carilles can count on Julio Robaina.​Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina's political campaign contributed $350 to the Luis Posada Carilles defense fund. Last Friday, the 83-year-old Cuban American and ex-CIA operative was acquitted by an El Paso jury of 11 federal charges. He was accused of ly ... More >>

This Week in Cocaine, Castro, and LeBron

​TWCCL is a new weekly installment bringing you all the news you need on the three issues that matter most to Miamians. COCAINE: Big bust of the week: $217 million in cocaine, seized at a shipping port in Kingston. An eight-ball was found at the Kennedy Space Center. This is the second time i ... More >>

Cuban Officials to Testify in Posada Carriles Trial

​In a highly unusual move, three officials from Cuba could take the stand as early as today in the trial of Luis Posada Carrilles, the Miami freedom fighter or terrorist, depending on which side of the Florida straits you live. The officials are expected to testify in federal court in West Te ... More >>

Posada Carrilles Sailed to a Restaurant on the Miami River, Witness Testifies

via newscom​If witnesses in the Luis Posada Carrilles trial can be believed, the lies told by the alleged Cuban bomber were due to more than a misunderstanding of el ingles. Posada, who has been tied to a series of bombings in Cuba and the downing of a passenger plane, had told officials he entere ... More >>

Cuban Operative Posada Carriles' English Questioned in Court

via newscomHow good is Luis Posada Carriles' English? That has become a central issue in the trial of the 82-year-old Cuban, who is charged with 11 counts of perjury, obstruction and immigration fraud for lying during immigration proceedings. On Wednesday, Federal prosecutors played tapes of the CI ... More >>

Luis Posada Carriles Got $300 a Month From CIA and Hoodwinked the Spies, Declassified Docs Show

via NewscomLuis Posada Carriles​In case you needed any more proof that the CIA often is not the most astute judge of character, check out this 1966 report on accused anti-Castro mass murderer Luis Posada Carriles: "Although ... dedicated to the overthrow of Castro, he is not a typical 'boom and ba ... More >>

EcuRed, Cuba's Castro-Approved Wikipedia Clone, Launches, Has Curious Take on Miami

It's just like Wikipedia, except Fidel gets to edit all your changes.​The resurgent Fidel Castro -- riding a new high as the world's foremost peddler of Bilderberg conspiracies -- has lately been helping his island nation lurch toward the Information Age. Last year, we wrote about Cuba's answer t ... More >>

Hugo Chavez Extradites Luis Posada Carriles Crony to Cuba

​Accused terrorist Luis Posada Carriles has been awaiting trial for more than a year. But prosecutors keep delaying the damn thing, and Venezuela wants to see some blood already. Today a judge there decided to do the next best thing and extradited a close associate of Carriles's, Francisco Ch ... More >>

Luis Posada Carriles Trial Postponed Again

The federal trial of Luis Posada Carriles, accused terrorist and viejito par excellence, has been postponed yet again.It's the second time this year the one-year-old case has been delayed. Carriles, widely seen as the mastermind of a series of bombings in Havana in 1997, and the collapse of a Cuban ... More >>

Fidel Castro's New Miniseries Chronicles 638 Times He's Cheated Death

On Sunday, Cuban television broadcast the first episode of an 8-part miniseries on the various assassination attempts on Fidel Castro.Just another jolly night on Cuban prime-time!​Called He Who Must Live, the miniseries covers the "638" attempts on El Supremo's life, including some that took place ... More >>

Letters from the issue of March 4, 2010

Cuban killer Luis Posada Carriles goes on trial

After the Last Cigar

Van Peebles, Borowitz, S.L. Price at the Book Fair

Miami Book Fair: Ann Louise Bardach on Fidel Castro's Death

​Back in the 1990s, Ann Louise Bardach -- who speaks Sunday at 11 a.m. with Gerald Posner at the Miami bookfair, made herself infamous in Miami by scoring a huge interview with Fidel Castro for Vanity Fair. Later, she nailed American hypocrisy toward terrorists when talking with Magic City mad bom ... More >>

Is the CIA Hiding Miami Anti-Castro Cubans' Role In JFK's Assassination?

Here at Riptide, we've had a lot of fun lately with recently declassified CIA documents.via Wikimedia CommonsWho is on that grassy knoll?​Last week, the spooks gave us files from the 60s that proved Luis Posada Carriles -- Miami's most famous terrorist still walking the streets today -- used to sn ... More >>

The Week That Was: Sex and Skates

The good news: The roller-skating thief who tormented the Jacuzzi Boys was quickly captured. The bad news: This was not allowed to mature into a thoroughly hilarious, full-scale crime spree. If it appears your child might have a future in the NBA, you might just want to take a bit of time out o ... More >>

New CIA Files Show Miami's Most Infamous Cuban Terrorist Was a Snitch

Last week, Riptide was all about Eduardo Arocena, the Miami dockworker convicted in 1985 of setting off 32 bombs in Little Havana and Manhattan. A certain mayoral candidate (ahem, Tomas Regalado, ahem) seems to have flirted with supporting Arocena back in the day, not that he'll admit it.via Wi ... More >>

The Truth, At Last: Jorge Mas Canosa Sponsored Terrorism

Without any fear of being sued or hit with a massive boycott, we're going to say it right up front, in plain English: Jorge Mas Canosa sponsored terrorism. via wallyg's flickrA monument to Jorge Mas Canosa. ​Boom. Feels good, right?For years, the press quaked in fear of criticizing the most powerf ... More >>

Miami mayoral candidate Tomas Regalado once raised cash for a terrorist

Castro Cried When He Got a Colostomy

​We know half of the scribes in Miami have their pens waiting in anticipation for the day Fidel dies, but journalist Ann Louise Bardach, author of Cuba Confidential, has gone ahead and written a whole book on the subject. The Daily Beast has the exclusive first excerpts from Without Fidel: A Death ... More >>

Code Pink Still Stinks

Local Photographer Carlos Miller Found Guilty

Letters from the Issue of January 31, 2008

"Luis Posada Carriles is a dangerous terrorist who belongs behind bars until he croaks!"

Rudy for Prez!

Giuliani agrees with Miami: Screw the public.

Last Minute Gifts: Posada Stuffer

Letters from the Issue of November 22, 2007

"Let us all tip our hats to one man's ability to question another's moral fiber."

Letters from the Issue of November 15, 2007

"He taught me things that some of these robot teachers would never dare"

Cuban Painters and Fugitives

Luis Posada Carriles and José Dionisio Suarez Esquivel show their stuff and tell their stories

Bazooka Babes

"We make sure the girls are handling these weapons properly"

Letters from the Issue of August 4, 2005

Response to "Tales of Teele," published July 28, 2005

The Dullness of Being Manny Diaz

Miami used to be a punch line, but now the joke is on bored reporters

Letters from the Issue of June 23, 2005

Just a retiree collecting a pension, police brutality, defensive art scenesters

Letters from the Issue of June 9 , 2005

Friends of Fidel, Miami Beach beatings, handgun chic

Terror Alert, Miami Style

Clandestine meetings and a hungry press

How I Missed the Posada Story

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Contra Campaign

John Kerry once took a shot at Miami's Felix Rodriguez for his part in the Iran-contra scandal. Now the Bush family friend is shooting back.

Dialogue: The Final Frontier

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

Righteous Bombers?

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

Terrorists, but Our Terrorists

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

Mother Knows Best

And that goes for mothers of convicted Cuban spies, too

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.

Spies in Miami, Commandos in Cuba

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

Cuban Missive Crisis

For years the infamous Wasp Network collected reams of data on Miami's anti-Castro forces -- and the sundry, sometimes bizarre, attempts to infiltrate them