Venezuela

Venezuelans Celebrate in Doral Following Death of Hugo Chavez

Venezuelans partied late into the night in Doral following yesterday's announcement that Hugo Chávez had died from cancer. Restaurant El Arepazo II, on the corner of NW 39th Street and 79th Avenue, was swarmed with more than 300 people waving flags, eating arepas, and sipping Polar.But nearly all t ... More >>

Hugo Chavez Is Dead

After months of battling a recurring bout of cancer, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has died. His vice president, Nicolas Maduro, announced the news on Venezuelan television about a half-hour ago, at 4:30 p.m., CNN reports.His death is likely to lead to political turmoil in a nation he's dominate ... More >>

Fidel Castro Discusses Mars Colonies, Buffalo Insemination, and Hugo Chavez's Recovery

Earlier this week, South Florida received news of Fidel Castro's continued not-deadness with a mixture of apathy and anger. On the one hand, watching him proudly vote in the sham elections he instituted annoys the hell out of most Miamians. On the other hand, Fidel looked shrunken and wrinkled like ... More >>

Casabe 305 Bistro: High-Priced Health Food on Coral Way

Tucked inside what appears to be a small home along Coral Way near 17th Avenue, Casabe 305 Bistro looks like somebody ripped a cottage out of Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard, gave it a three week juice cleanse in San Francisco then dropped it off in Miami with a Latin menu in tow. The focus here is ... More >>

Fur Coat Talks Debut Album and Making EDM in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela

"You and I are like cocaine and ketamine -- I just wanna make you high," sings Cari Golden on "You and I," the insidiously catchy 2012 breakout hit from Venezuelan DJ-production duo Fur Coat. And with such provocative party favor references in its lyrics, what hedonistic club rat could resist the re ... More >>

Obama Says Hugo Chavez Doesn't Present Serious National Security Concern; Rubio and Republicans Jump to Attack

América TeVe, the little Spanish-language, Hialeah Gardens-based scored a big interview with President Barack Obama, and it's causing a major controversy.Obama told reporter Oscar Haza that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has not posed a "serious national security impact" to America in the past fe ... More >>

Call to Assassinate Hugo Chavez's Brother Allegedly Hidden in Venezuelan Crossword

Only in a country like Venezuela with such tight and ridiculous controls on press freedom could a crossword writer be accused of embedding a call to kill the president's brother in a puzzle. Perez Pirela, a TV pundit who is something like a pro-Chavez Glenn Beck, made the accusation against&nbs ... More >>

Charlotte Bistro Returns As Mesa

Charlotte Bistro added something extraordinary to Coral Gables when it first appeared on Miracle Mile in 2009. Chef Elida Villaroel, a graduate of the Institut Paul Bocuse in Lyon, France, employed a light touch and a delicate vision to create refined Venezuelan and French-inspired cuisine. And the ... More >>

Is Hugo Chavez Setting Up a Military Junta In Case He Dies of Cancer?

Hugo Chavez may have quelled rumors last week that he was near death by appearing on TV looking relatively robust, but some recent political moves have left many in Caracas wondering if he's going to make it to the presidential elections -- and even more alarmingly, what will happen to Venezuela if ... More >>

Hugo Chávez's Six-Song Deathbed Playlist

​Among the most politically polarizing figures in modern times, Venezuelan "president" Hugo Chávez has had the rare distinction of sharing the worldwide stage with other high-energy luminaries like Muammar Gaddafi (d. 2011), Kim Jong-il (d. 2011), Evo Morales, Fidel and Raul Castro, Daniel Ortega ... More >>

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 >>

Peace Out

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Headed to Cuba, Venezuela to Hang With Chavez, Castro

​In a few short weeks, the world's eyes will turn to Havana as a powerful but highly controversial leader with millions of devout followers lands to shake hands with Fidel Castro. No, no, not the pope -- he's not coming until sometime this spring. We're talking about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the dour ... More >>

Do Implant Bombs Mean Miami Is Now More Dangerous Than Mazar-i-Sharif?

Suspicious.​Miami has long been the unofficial fake boob capital of the country, probably the world (nice try, Caracas).Now, however, the Transportation Security Administration says that terrorists may be plotting suicide bombings using surgical implants.Suddenly our artificially enhanced paradise ... More >>

Venezuelan Missile Crisis? Chavez Letting Iran Build Rockets on Coast, German Paper Says

photo by Carlosar via Wikimedia CommonsFollowing in Fidel's footsteps​Stop us if this sounds familiar: An antagonistic South American strongman invites one of America's worst enemies to build long-range missiles in his country, sending the region -- and damn near the world -- to the brink.Hugo Cha ... 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 >>

Hugo Chavez Rallies Against Boob Jobs

​Move over, America. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has found a new evil to target: boob jobs. He might actually have a point, for once. Venezuela has become one of the biggest markets in the world for breast augmentation, and the plastic surgery trend has become so severe that often women who ... More >>

Giant Brawl Breaks Out in Venezuelan National Assembly

​Yesterday, we wondered if the protests in Egypt could spur similar strife in Venezuela. Today, Marco Rubio seemed to have subtlety urged on the idea by releasing a statement saying, "Today's events should hearten those struggling for greater freedom and respect for human rights in our own Hemisph ... More >>

Will Hugo Chavez Meet the Same Fate as Mubarak?

​After weeks of tumultuous protests, embattled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is widely expected to step down as soon as tonight. Will other "democratically elected" presidents-for-life across the globe soon face similar fates? Now that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has announced plans to run for re-e ... More >>

Carlos Andres Perez Not Heading Back To Venezuela As New Tug-Of-War Erupts Over Body

​Just when it looked like ex-Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez was headed back to Caracas for burial, a brand new round of fighting between his wife and mistress has again left his body in a Miami funeral home limbo.Cecilia Matos, his longtime companion in Miami and his daughters now deny t ... More >>

Carlos Andres Perez, Ex-Venezuelan Prez, Has Burial Delayed While Wife and Mistress Argue Over the Gravesite (Update)

Perez led Venezuela until 1992, when Hugo Chavez ousted him. His mistress pledges his body won't return until Chavez is gone.​After a week of kind eulogies for Carlos Andres Perez -- including our own arguing the world would be a better place if he could have just held off the coup-crazy Hugo Chav ... More >>

Noche Buena, Rumbero-Style

Mad Scientist Leo Mascheroni Caught Trying To Sell Nuclear Bomb To Venezuela

Does this look like a man who should have a nuclear bomb?​P. Leonardo Mascheroni had a simple dream: earning billions of dollars in government funding to build a gigantic laser beam that would create stable nuclear fusion and limitless, free energy for the world. So simple! But the government woul ... More >>

Los Amigos Invisibles at Grand Central September 24

Today In Cocaine: Ten Busted in Juarez-to-Miami Ring, Colombian Coke Lord Due In Federal Court

​It's already been a busy week for the drug that made Miami -- or at least for the feds' perpetual war on the white stuff. First, the DEA arrested 10 people, mostly from Miami and Hialeah, and charged them with organizing a ring shuttling coke from Juarez to South Florida.Then came word that a muc ... More >>

Mediterraneo at Jade Brickell: A New Neighborhood Hangout

Photo by Christina Staalstrom​"It feels like an aquarium." That's what Thierry Matamoros, executive chef at Mediterraneo Brickell wants you to say when dining at his restaurant located in Jade residential tower on Brickell Bay Drive. The blue lights, clean lines, fluid walls, and blue back-lit bar ... More >>

Hugo Chavez Accuses U.S. Plane of "Electronic Warfare," Hints at Aggression with Colombia

​Venezuela and Colombia are starting to become the Ned Flandars and Homer Simpson of Latin America: two neighbors with very different world views that are really starting to hate each other.Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez has even implied that if Juan Manuel Santos, the chosen successor of curre ... More >>

Social Klash Asking For Fans' Help To Score Opening Slot with Desorden Publico on January 30

via myspace.com/desordenpublicooficialDesorden Publico​I know for a fact that most of you, dear readers, like to have fun. Usually in a musical and beer-drenched setting, Hell, I like it too. I was born and raised in Venezuela and if there's one thing you won't read in the dailies, is how much fun ... More >>

Grateful Bread and Moises Bakery: One serves hearty fare, the other tasty empanadas

Party Like a Salsa: Venezuelan Import, Salsa Fiesta, Opens on Biscayne Corridor

Jackie SayetService with a sonrisa​American mall food court fare leaves some -- er, many -- things to be desired.  But venture across the border or overseas, and as cultures change, so does the fast food game, usually for the better.So when we first heard that young entrepreneurs and husband- ... More >>

Los Amigos Invisibles play downtown Miami's Kukaramakara this Sunday

Around the World in 12 Hours at Space

​Hey house junkies, turn off your computer and pack your bags -- you're going on a trip, and I'm not talking about the chemically-induced kind. This tomorrow night, Space Global Sessions has invited 11 DJs to take you "Around the World in 12 Hours." The event starts at 11 p.m, and runs through Sun ... More >>

Le Provencal Re-Opens at New Coral Gables Location, More Gables Restaurant News

imaga via Jason ObesoThe new Le Provencal Jason Obeso is a realtor with Kerdyk Real Estate. He contacted Short Order via email with some Coral Gables restaurant news. "Despite the slow year, I placed a new restaurant in the Gables in March and May, and facilitated Gables institution Le Provencal's m ... More >>

Oscar D'Leon

Hugo Chavez Stinks, but Rafael Correa...Not

Today's Hugo Chavez's tenth anniverary in power. He's messed with everybody's brains since taking the oath of office -- and he has brought a voice to a lotta poor Venezuelans, many of whom have come to Miami. But this caudillo ain't slick. He's lucky. Oil revenues have soared to the point where he's ... More >>

Sacha Nairobi Is Hot

And she peddles her own tunes online.

Miami's Electric Bunnies Offer More Garage Punk Madness

Beyond a Pretty Face

Rocker Juanes gets conscious.

Weekly News Wrapup - Getting Paid For Good Grades, Skyrocketing Gas Prices and Warrants for Bush and Cheney

We Wish You a Trini Christmas

Biscayne Bounty

Michele Caffe has a little bit of everything, and plenty of it

Trampling the Grid

CIFO's commission artists offer slaphappy taproots, martyrs, and more

Milkamania

She's fast, she's smart, and she's headed for Indy

Never Forget You

The Americanization of the telenovela: in Spanish, in Miami

The Bueno Vino Social Club

Where the blood of the grapes runs freely and cheaply

Letters from the Issue of December 18, 2003

Folkin' Awesome

Rod McDonald entertains outdoors, dude

Like Cuisine For Chocolate

A Venezuelan cook makes the sweet stuff stick to your dinner

How to Organize a Peace Protest in Little Havana

First, get unified; next, give out food

Terrorists, but Our Terrorists

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