Venezuela

Los Amigos Invisibles at Grand Central Miami June 8

Two American Diplomats May Have Shot Each Other At A Venezuelan Strip Club

This much is clear: there's something about gyrating ladies in South American clubs that drives all common sense right out of U.S. government officials' heads. We're just past the one year anniversary of the infamous Secret Service agents at a Colombian brothel incident, and now we've got a new tawd ... More >>

Los Amigos Invisibles: "We Want to Leave the Crowd Sweating From So Much Dancing"

At a time when most bands were either grunge, punk, or nu-metal, Los Amigos Invisibles took a different route -- danceable Latin funk -- and it was a path that led them to becoming the premier party band in Venezuela. Over the last 20 years, these chamos musicales have definitively proved that Lat ... More >>

Crappy Situation: Venezuela Is Running Out Of Toilet Paper

When it comes to sanitation, Americans are spoiled. We have so much toilet paper in this country of anal-wipe abundance that we can afford to slap politicians' faces on it in protest. Not so in Venezuela, where a TP shortage currently has government officials and opposition leaders blaming each oth ... More >>

Old and Nu

Post-Chavez, Miami's Venezuelan Artists Ponder the Future

Aijó Nuevo-Japanese Fusion Now Open at Jade

The latest entry in the burgeoning downtown dining scene is Aijó, which opened yesterday on the ground floor of the Jade building in Brickell. The owner is Rene Buroz, a lawyer in his native Caracas, Venezuela; executive chef is Christian Bonilla, who was recently sous chef at Zuma.Aijó translates ... More >>

Eligio Cedeño Slams Hugo Chávez's Bid to Join UN Human Rights Council

Read the incredible story of how Eligio Cedeño cheated death and Chávez's security forces to flee Venezuela and start a second life in Miami.Eligio Cedeño finally got his day in court -- or as close to it as he can get while Hugo Chávez is still alive. The Venezuelan banker was imprisoned for th ... More >>

South Floridians Charged With Selling F-16 Parts To The Venezuelan Air Force

According to recent reports, Venezuela has been supplying Iran with F-16s in an ominous arms trade that should make the rest of the world very queasy. And a federal indictment filed yesterday makes us wonder if any of those F-16 parts came from our back yard.

Hugo Chavez Ships Mountains of Gold to Caracas as Panic Runs on Toilet Paper Begin

​Hugo Chavez has a new plan to save Venezuela's teetering national economy and it's, uh, shipping giant mountains of gold into Venezuela amid a procession of tanks so he can end the "dictatorship of the U.S. dollar" and possibly "offer President Obama a loan."So how did his grateful people react? ... More >>

Wilson Ramos Kidnapping Scares Marlins' Anibal Sánchez From Returning to Venezuela

Anibal Sanchez, left, cancelled his trip home to Venezuela after Wilson Ramos's kidnappingToday is supposed to be the big day for the newly re-named Miami Marlins. Tonight the team unveils its new uniforms and, perhaps, a new blockbuster signing.But at least five players on the 40-man roster probabl ... More >>

Eligio Cedeño: A banker battles Hugo Chavez

Caramelos de Cianuro at Grand Central July 15

Caramelos de Cianuro on 20 Years in Punk, "La Casa," and Killing It Live

​Longevity is far more often the antithesis of punk rock than an adjective used to describe it. But Venezuelan rockers Caramelos de Cianuro don't subscribe to the usual rules. This band has been doing its thing for a very long time now, and it's been doing it well. The group first garnered attent ... More >>

Miami's Five Best Parties for Fourth of July 2011

​Once upon a time in America, the British Empire thought they could tell us what to do, and make us pay them for the privilege. Then we kicked their ass in front of everybody, made Britain our royal bitch, and threw a big-ass party to celebrate. Ever since, we have marked the Fourth of July by b ... More >>

Wynwood Second Saturday Art Walk June 11: from Dada to Armada

Radioboxer Releases New Album Magic City Ruse April 1

"What? Is there something on my face?"​Every now and then, a really cool local band comes along and you say, "Holy crap! This band is pretty fuckin' cool." Less often, they get to count themselves among those lucky few who make it beyond their city's area code, transcending region and working be ... More >>

Carlos Andres Perez Would Have Made a Better Venezuela

​So the last sane president of Venezuela died in Miami Saturday. Carlos Andres Perez was the probably the first Latin president to flex his muscles over oil, thus setting the stage for his one-time nemesis, the half wit Hugo Chavez, to take power. I interviewed Cap -- who was 88 at the time o ... More >>

Five Venezuelan Musical Acts We'd Gladly Deport Kat Stacks For

La Criolla tetona​Okay, it wasn't until my colleague Esther Park's blog about Ms. Kat Stacks arrest and possible deportation that I learned hip-hop's most hated bitch is Venezuelan. Needless to say, I was disappointed. Not only is the country presided over by one of history's dumbest assholes, ... More >>

Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Promise "New World Order"

​Hugo Chavez runs Venezuela as a leftist secular state. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad runs Iran as a far-right country under Islamic law. These two should not and do not agree on most things. So why are they teaming up to promise a "new world order?" Because they both hate America so much. 

Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Promise "New World Order"

​Hugo Chavez runs Venezuela as a leftist secular state. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad runs Iran as a far-right country under Islamic law. These two should not and do not agree on most things. So why are they teaming up to promise a "new world order?" Because they both hate America so much.

Cuba Takes Steps to Connect, Sell, and Probe

Cuba's crawl toward the 20th Century took a few major steps this week when the Communist regime -- which has struck oil offshore -- announced it would ease up on free-market restrictions and build an undersea cable to hook up with Chávez in Venezuela.The cable -- which will run 3,125 miles linking ... More >>

Ten Weird Vodkas: From Root Beer to Bacon and Bubble Gum

Raspberry, pink grapefruit, bubble gum and now "wild cherri" will be joining the flavored vodka market. Vodka withs something odd mixed in reminds us of the steak and potatoes ice cream we once chowed on in a little mountain place in Venezuela. But that's a story for another day. When you add someth ... More >>

In Chavez's Crime-Torn Venezuela, No More Front-Page Photos of Bullet-Riddled Corpses

One opposition paper reacted to the ban with a front-page "Censored" photo.​Last year, more than 16,000 Venezuelans were felled by bullets, bombs, knives and other violent instruments of crime -- but don't look for their grisly death photos on the front pages in Caracas. A Venezuelan court yesterd ... More >>

Free From Spain, But Not Chávez

Lingua Ex Machina

Bachaco Playing UM Thursday, DWNTWN Series Friday

​The members of Bachaco are going to be busy little bees over the next few days. Well, ants maybe. Because, as you know, their name refers to a Brazilian leafcutter ant. Entomology lessons aside, the SoFla-based fusion group is going to be performing live at UM for the Patio Jam tomorrow. Then on ... More >>

Three Amigos, Plus Three More

Destroyio Rocks For Legal Rights For Our Immigrant Bros

via Destroyio RecordsClick for full-size image.​What if you woke up this morning and the government decided it was time for you to leave this country? Ever been imprisoned and deported? In Miami, it happens every day. Destroyio Records says it's wrong, and in an effort to keep one of their own fro ... More >>

News Roundup

Amongst other changes, Mayor-elect Regalado plans to start talking about Cuba and Venezuela more. Right after he fixes those potholes and fires Chief Timoney I presume. [Herald]The Coast Guard will unload nearly 5 tons of Cocaine in Miami (or roughly a New Year's Eve worth for SoBe partying) today. ... More >>

Los Amigos Invisibles

Marlins Game : WBC :: Dog Poo : Kobe Beef

I counted three Venezuelan girls in bikini's that made me want to defect on the next plane to Caracas.

Message to Andres Oppenheimer: Work Harder!

OK, now this is funny. In a Herald correction this morning, the newspaper admitted the first paragraph of Andres Oppeneheimer's column "was inadvertently picked up from a previous column."What they actually "picked up" was the headline of the column from three days before: "One sure bet: Venezuela' ... More >>

Locos Por Juana Arrive Today In L.A. For the Grammys

Locos Por Juana, considered by many to be Miami's best Latin band, makes their way to La La Land today for a string of performances surrounding the 51st Annual Grammy Awards.  Whether their getting the crowd going at one of the city's many festivals or barring the entrance to Jazid as thei ... More >>

Bachaco

War on Hugo Chávez

An outlaw and former spook takes on the Venezuelan dictator

Contemporary Creations

Arteamericas reveals the best of Latin America

The Fugitive

Patricia Poleo, a Venezuelan journalist and political activist, is accused of murder. She's in exile in Miami.

Venezuelans Rock the Vote

Skills Invisibles

Letters from the Issue of June 23, 2005

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

Hot Couture

Nada but Empanadas

Voz Veis

Flowery Affair

Immerse yourself in orchids

Venezuelan Invasion

Guaco is salsa's best kept secret

Miami in the Meantime

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

Have Cars, Will Travel

Why are all those South American cop cars parked off Le Jeune Road? Ask salesman Ricardo Callado.

Letters

Female Trouble