World Politics

Ex-Mayor Manny Diaz Cuts Ad for Obama, Says Romney is "Exploiting the Suffering" of Cubans

In an election that should be centering around the economy and health care, in Miami-Dade the biggest topic, at least as presented in both campaigns' latest ads, predictably appears to be Cuba. After Mitt Romney took to the airwaves with a Spanish-language ad connecting Barack Obama to the Castros a ... More >>

LeBron James Accidentally Finds Himself in Middle of Taiwan and China Struggle

​LeBron James will be taking his talents to the Far East in August in what Nike was calling a tour of China. Problem is his schedule starts in Taiwan, and that government really, really doesn't like even the slightest implication that it's actually part of China. So now officials are threatening t ... More >>

Should We Cut off Aid to Pakistan? Allen West Says Yes, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Says No Way

​The Pakistani government and military is facing tough criticism after Osama bin Laden was found living rather comfortably in a large city in their country just minutes from Pakistan's top military training academy. Rep. Allen West of Broward and Palm Beach, ever the reactionary Republican, is lea ... More >>

Tea Party Group Sponsoring Presidential Primary Debate in Florida

​Last time around, presidential hopefuls of both parties came down to the University of Miami to participate in the nation's first primary debates broadcast in Spanish. In 2012, the Republicans will return to Florida for a primary debate, but this one is being sponsored by a group called the "Tea ... More >>

If Jeff Greene Wins Primary, Democrat Establishment Might Tacitly Embrace Charlie Crist

The impetus for the latest Politico article about the Florida senate race must have gone something like this: "Hey, you know that Jeff Greene guy who's spending $40 million to buy the Democratic Senate nomination -- he's kind of creepy with a bit of a shady background, right? And Charlie Crist ... More >>

Return of Three Mile Island?

Exelon plans to build a new nuclear power plant. Ho-hum.

Dialogueros

Caught between Iraq and a hard-line place

Letters from the Issue of February 20, 2002

Dialogue: The Final Frontier

When trade sanctions, bluster, and a few bombs don't work, you gotta try something else

Frometal Jacket

The extreme idealism of F-4 commander Rodolfo Frometa

Politics & Parties & Power

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

Vote Here

An election enables Secret Ballot to explore social relations in modernizing Iran

Heretics in the House

They came to Miami. They gathered publicly. They showed no fear. And they trashed the Cuba embargo.

Blowup

You've seen the revolutionary photo, now here's the soap opera

Incessant Static

Every year millions of your dollars are pumped into Radio and TV Martí. What do you get in return?

The War That Never Ends

More than 40 years after the Bay of Pigs disaster, a new battle erupts over those who died during the invasion

Money, Politics, and Cuba

The Federal Election Commission has a few questions for an influential Miami political action committee

Terrorists, but Our Terrorists

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

Waiting for Otto

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

Spies in Miami, Commandos in Cuba

If you disagree with what they do, why defend their right to do it?

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of 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.

Voice of a Nation

Radio and TV Martí are supposed to remain above politics and provide Cubans with unbiased news. This is not a joke; it only seems like one.

Carlos Cruz's Second Act

In his native Cuba he was a film star. Here in the States he's just another car salesman with a dream.

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 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.

Rick ... or Red?

Could Rick Sanchez, Miami's most notorious journalistic windbag, actually be an agent of Fidel Castro?

The Great Divide

Correspondence from our readers

Artists, Ideas, and Subversion

Have Cars, Will Travel

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

Twice Exiled

Bernardo Benes helped free hundreds of Cuban political prisoners twenty years ago. Hardliners in Miami hate him for it.

Miami's Man in Havana

Unrepentant leftist, friend to Castro, and loyal Cuban, Max Lesnik continues to defy the ideological mandates of el exilio

Notes from the Underground, Part 2

The latest dispatch from independent journalists in Cuba: Castro is cracking down

Eyewitnesses to History

Marion and Orlando de Cardenas aided Fidel Castro when the Cuban revolution was still a daydream, not a bad dream

In Havana, Telling It Like It Is

Fellowship Down

The Cintas Foundation, a long-standing financial boon to artists of Cuban heritage, isn't doling out any money this year

Visit Cuba Cyberspace.2Day

Despite new economic sanctions and travel restrictions, castrolania is just a few computer clicks away.

The Man Who Would Be Fidel

For more than fifteen years, master Castro imitator Armando Roblan has been sending up El Tirano

Capitalist or Commie?

How a Miami businessman got rich doing business with Cuba - and lived to shout about it

In Havana, On Drugs

As faith in the revolution sinks to new lows, kids in Cuba are getting high

Art of the State

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.

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

From Moscow to Miami

When Cuba's top students were sent to the Soviet Union, no one could have guessed they would change from revolutionaries to refugees.

The Cuban Connection

"You've reached Fidel Castro's voice mail. Please press 1 to leave a message, or 2 to hear his opinion about this new telephone service."

Call While You Can

Much to AT&T's dismay, foreign companies have found a way around the restrictions on calling Cu ba from the U.S. -- for now, at least

Get Me Rewrite!

Diario las Americas published a propagandized version of a dispatch from Havana. Cuban officials blamed it on the writer.

Michael Finney's Last Flight

Back from Baghdad

Cuba Over and Out