​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 Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington that offers a peak into his health.
In the excerpt she labels Fidel's extended exit "The Fideliad," but puts to rest any lingering Cancer rumors. Instead, he
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 Wikimedia CommonsCarriles in 1962.​We noted how strange it was for Regalado to run away from the Arocena issue in a town that still harbors noted Cuban terrorists such as Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada
