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Tales of Terror

In the chaotic days following the attacks, a reporter came to expect the unexpected

By John Lantigua
Oct 11, 2001

It was the day after planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and I stood on a sidewalk in North Miami staring at FBI headquarters. Newsweek magazine had called that morning and asked me to help track the terrorists who lived in South Florida in the months...
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.

By John Lantigua
Feb 15, 2001

At a crucial moment in the Cuban movie Alicia in the Land of Wonders, a communist government bureaucrat looks into the camera and shouts at the top of his lungs: "¡Yo soy un hijo de puta!" ("I'm a son of a bitch!") The 1991 film, a surreal, nightmarish satire of...
Port Whine

Miami-Dade County's proposal to privatize public marinas has mariners up in arms

By John Lantigua
Jan 14, 1999

On August 23, 1992, the day after Hurricane Andrew decimated parts of South Florida, Robert Hammel arrived at Matheson Hammock County Marina, where he works as a park attendant. He found twisted metal piers and 40-foot boats marooned in parking lots more than 100 feet from the shore. Some craft...
These Numbers Are Up

1998 was a great year for corruption. New Times puts a price tag on the year's malfeasance

By John Lantigua and Robert Andrew Powell
Jan 7, 1999

In early 1998 the United States Attorney's Office in Miami announced it would more than double the size of its anticorruption unit, from six to twelve attorneys. Just in time, too. Federal and state prosecutors have been busy over the last twelve months following trails of money in the form...
Rich Thug, Poor Thug

How gangs overran a school in an affluent neighborhood. And how administrators reclaimed it.

By John Lantigua
Dec 10, 1998

The final bell rings at G. Holmes Braddock Senior High in West Miami-Dade. Kids wearing jeans and backpacks stream out, the majority headed home to neighborhoods that spread to the Everglades' edge. Dozens of parents wait outside to chauffeur their children back to sylvan housing tracts with names like Lakes...

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