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  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Hugo Chavez's Venezuela Might Be Sued for Not Paying Rent in Miami

    ​Apparently, Hugo Chavez is a landlord's nightmare. The controversial Venezuelan prez recently announced that he was closing his country's consulate in Miami for good. Problem is, the consulate had just agreed to a ten-year lease for its Brickell office and hasn't even bothered to pay rent for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    The Ten Strangest Responses to Rick Scott's Facebook Fill-in-the-Blank Game

    ​So Gov. Rick Scott, or whoever it is that controls his social media accounts, took to Facebook last night and asked Floridians to play a fun little game of fill-in-the-blank about the legislative session so far. With over 300 replies so far, Scott, who has some of the lowest approval numbers of a ... More >>

  • News

    February 2, 2012

    Miami imams accused of funding terrorists: Hate and redemption

    ​So Gov. Rick Scott, or whoever it is that controls his social media accounts, took to Facebook last night and asked Floridians to play a fun little game of fill-in-the-blank about the legislative session so far. With over 300 replies so far, Scott, who has some of the lowest approval numbers of a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Michele Bachmann Makes Up Second Cuban Missile Crisis Based on No Evidence

    ​In a major development, Cuba went to the United Nations yesterday and announced it wanted it to normalize relations with the United States. However, Michele Bachmann won't have it. Not because of anything like "prove facts" or a "rationale and informed understanding of the issue," but because she ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Rick Scott's Administration Really Hates Sunshine Laws

    ​"Are there things we don't want you to know? Yes," Brian Burgess, Rick Scott's communication director (or misdirector in many cases) tells the Times/Herald's Tallahassee Bureau. "There are things we don't want to broadcast to our opponents."Florida's Sunshine Laws are supposed to foster an o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Lyglenson Lemorin, Deported Despite Liberty City 7 Acquittal, Can't Return For Son's Funeral

    ​​Lyglenson Lemorin's life already read like a John Grisham novel with a particularly cruel ending: acquitted in court of cooked-up, Bush-era terrorism charges, the legal U.S. resident with no criminal record was deported anyway to his native, earthquake-ravaged Haiti, leaving his family behind ... More >>

  • News

    January 27, 2011

    Gaybies: South Florida same-sex couple travels to Central America for a family

    ​​Lyglenson Lemorin's life already read like a John Grisham novel with a particularly cruel ending: acquitted in court of cooked-up, Bush-era terrorism charges, the legal U.S. resident with no criminal record was deported anyway to his native, earthquake-ravaged Haiti, leaving his family behind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Anna Ardin, Swede Accusing WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange of Assault, Probably Didn't Work For the CIA In Miami

    Anna Ardin: U.S. spy? Sorry, but not in Miami.​Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has shaken the Washington D.C. bureaucracy to its core with embarrassing revelations -- from illicit contacts with Fidel Castro to State Department plans to steal credit card numbers from top United Nations offici ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Latin American Round-Up: Hugo Chávez Gets Decree Powers, Raúl Castro Gets Depressed

    Cheer up buddy. I've got decree powers!​Hugo Chávez won't be making any Obama-like compromises in 2011. The Venezuelan National Assembly is expected to pass a ley habilitante today that would allow the bombastic president -- best known for his twitter histrionics -- to pass laws by decree for 12 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Prostitutes Lured To Post-Quake Haiti By Promise of Relief Money and Aid Workers

    via Dominican Today​Out of all the things Haiti needs right now as it continues to rebuild after this year's devastating earthquake are prostitutes. Yet, Time magazine reports today that post-quake Haiti has attracted a startling number of sex workers, mostly women from the neighboring Domini ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Giant Guatemala Sinkhole Still Open; Temporary Protected Status In Limbo

    ​In May, a tropical storm and a volcano eruption devastated Guatemala, leaving hundreds dead, and a giant sinkhole that swallowed a three-story building in the heart of the capital city. In response to the natural disasters, its government asked the United States to extend Temporary Protected Stat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2008

    Secretary of State Clinton Is Almost a Sure Thing

    Obama's fast rise had as much to do with his natural charisma and thoughtful, powerful speeches as the fact that he wasn't Hillary Clinton. The former first lady a year ago seemed like a lock for the White House, but the anti-Clinton factions in her party needed a superstar challenger. Enter Obama ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    How to Rebuild the Republican Party: Trickle-Down Truck Nutz Theory, Lincolnstein, and The Second Coming

    Obama's fast rise had as much to do with his natural charisma and thoughtful, powerful speeches as the fact that he wasn't Hillary Clinton. The former first lady a year ago seemed like a lock for the White House, but the anti-Clinton factions in her party needed a superstar challenger. Enter Obama ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2006

    More on those nasty immigration judges...

    Obama's fast rise had as much to do with his natural charisma and thoughtful, powerful speeches as the fact that he wasn't Hillary Clinton. The former first lady a year ago seemed like a lock for the White House, but the anti-Clinton factions in her party needed a superstar challenger. Enter Obama ... More >>

  • News

    August 11, 2005

    Forever Missing Part 2

    Donna Weaver hoped to get help from the FBI in finding her husband. Instead she got crooked agents working with violent drug dealers

  • News

    November 20, 2003

    Fashion Sense and Nonsense

    Gucci will never be the same, and Miami's clothes hounds are growling

  • News

    October 31, 2002

    Politics & Parties & Power

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

  • News

    January 17, 2002

    The Accidental Terrorist

    He stumbled into a group of Muslim extremists with plans to attack America. Then he stumbled into Miami. Today Shaheed Mohamed is nowhere to be found.

  • News

    November 29, 2001

    Letters from the Issue of November 29, 2001

    I Bake, Therefore I Pan: Excuse me, but am I the only one who thinks Miami is clueless about dough?

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    Letters from the Issue of November 22, 2001

    The Great Art Debate, Part 2: This letter not intended for stupefied couch potatoes

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    Waiting for Otto

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

  • News

    April 26, 2001

    Bird of Paradox

    José Basulto, president of Brothers to the Rescue, is a CIA-trained warrior who insists he supports nonviolent resistance. Complicated? Sí, señor.

  • 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.

  • Dining

    September 21, 2000

    And the Winner Is ...

    Could you win a restaurant just by writing an essay?

  • News

    May 11, 2000

    The Great Divide

    Correspondence from our readers

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    DeFede

    Welcome to Alex Penelas's Banana Republic

  • Music

    November 11, 1999

    Return Engagement

    The quiet intensity of pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    Miami in the Meantime

    With the future of their country in flux, Venezuelans are setting up shop, and opposing camps, in Florida

  • News

    September 23, 1999

    Kulchur

    How about a little music with your drama?

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Your Pain Is His Pain

    How about a little music with your drama?

  • 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 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

    June 4, 1998

    Radio Free Miami

    Welcome to the new Radio Marti, dragged into the swirl of local exile politics, more quarrelsome than ever, and growing increasingly irrelevant

  • News

    April 30, 1998

    Miracle on 22nd Street

    Welcome to the new Radio Marti, dragged into the swirl of local exile politics, more quarrelsome than ever, and growing increasingly irrelevant

  • News

    March 26, 1998

    Uncertain Justice

    Was Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega really a drug trafficker? Or is it possible he was set up by the U.S. government? Try asking a few dozen people who should know.

  • News

    March 12, 1998

    News of the Weird

    Was Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega really a drug trafficker? Or is it possible he was set up by the U.S. government? Try asking a few dozen people who should know.

  • News

    January 1, 1998

    Welcome to America. Now Go Home.

    Granted sweeping new powers by Congress, the INS is quickly earning a global reputation for cruel and capricious conduct at Miami International Airport

  • News

    December 18, 1997

    Jail Cells Are Forever

    At least they are for Cuban immigrants who are not U.S. citizens

  • News

    June 20, 1996

    The Monster Mash

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

  • News

    June 13, 1996

    DeFede

    Radio Marti: Ethics in Exile

  • News

    September 14, 1995

    Sacked

    One of Dade's most controversial advocates for the homeless finds herself jobless

  • News

    July 6, 1995

    Forgive and Forget

    Internal records of disciplinary actions against Metro-Dade cops get wiped clean after two years

  • 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

    August 3, 1994

    That's the Way the Check Bounces

    Thanks to executive order 12922, some Haitian students face the prospect of being kicked out of local colleges for failure to pay tuition

  • 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

    January 12, 1994

    Our Man in Haiti

    Former Dade politician Darryl Reaves was ready when the call came: The military rulers in Port-au-Prince need your help!

  • News

    April 14, 1993

    Reflections from County Jail

    Former Dade politician Darryl Reaves was ready when the call came: The military rulers in Port-au-Prince need your help!

  • News

    February 27, 1991

    Dirty Money

    Former Dade politician Darryl Reaves was ready when the call came: The military rulers in Port-au-Prince need your help!

  • News

    November 7, 1990

    Operation Screw Up

    Former Dade politician Darryl Reaves was ready when the call came: The military rulers in Port-au-Prince need your help!

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