Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo came back to Miami last year in a plain, gray casket with a crucifix on the lid. When he arrived, his 179-pound body underwent an autopsy – its second – during which Dade County medical examiners noted the sixteen bullet holes in the head, face, and…

All summer long the ghost of South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela has haunted Miami as surely as a bearded wraith named Fidel Castro has deviled the city for three decades. Like Cuban Miami’s absentee archvillain, black Miami’s imported superhero is now a touchstone and tuning fork for local reality,…

Q: Tell us, in your opinion, what the American dream is? A: There is no dream left. The world’s ending. There’s nothing more, no new ideas. Everything is getting old, nothing left. Back in the Fifties, my dad owned two houses before he was 22, and nowadays you can’t even…