Orlando Bosch

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

Fidel Castro Memorabilia Selling Like Hotcakes, Including This Badass Golden Gun

via Cafe Fuerte​News flash, Miami: Fidel Castro ain't dead yet. But a pre-death run on Fidel memorabilia and signatures is driving prices through the roof. Apparently, autograph hounds are tailing Fidel these days like that creepy sweatpants guy following Hanley Ramirez at spring training with a t ... More >>

Orlando Bosch, Cuban Exile Militant, Dies at 84

​Orlando Bosch, a hero to many in Miami's Cuban exile community and an unrepentant terrorist to others, has died at the age of 84 in Miami after a prolonged fight with illness. Bosch, a fierce anti-Castro militant, had been linked to several violent acts in his life, including ... 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 >>

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 >>

Kid Stuff

Politics helped propel college dropout Carlos Manrique to the top of the educational ladder.

Cuban Painters and Fugitives

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

Give to the Rich, Take from the Poor

After years of go-nowhere schemes, that's the plan for Watson Island

Glorious and Notorious

Casablanca had Rick's, Vegas had the Stardust, Miami's cocaine jazz age had the decadent Mutiny Hotel

Ego Without End

Driven by shameless vanity and enabled by an obliging press, Maurice Ferré, unfortunately, is at it again

A Friend Indeed

Meet Camilo Padreda, dynamic businessman, faithful Republican, patron of law enforcement, convicted felon

Righteous Bombers?

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

Politics & Parties & Power

How to campaign in the new House District 25? There's always Cuba.

BEST LOCAL BOY GONE BAD

Demetrio Perez, Jr.

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

Mother Knows Best

And that goes for mothers of convicted Cuban spies, too

Waiting for Otto

Why would a man sullied by Iran-contra and illegal propaganda campaigns be a Bush nominee? Good question.

Paradise Lost, Again

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

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

The Great Divide

Correspondence from our readers

Mullin

The Burden of a Violent History

Beyond Havana

Life is a matter of quiet persistence in Santa Clara, the town made famous by Che Guevara

Mullin

The Wizard of Odd

Nice Guy, Wrong Job

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.

Glorious & Notorious

Casablanca had Rick's; Vegas had the Stardust; Miami's cocaine jazz age had the decadent Mutiny Hotel

The Monster Mash

Jorge Mas Canosa answered a journalistic hatchet jobwith a libel lawsuit. But now everyone is getting cut to the bone.

Swelter

Alberto Gonzalez -- Wild Man at the Plate