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Obama's Florida Gamble

McCain was too late. The new prez spent heavily in Florida and eked out victory here.

By Tristram Korten
Nov 6, 2008

As epitaphs go, the McCain rally Sunday night/Monday morning in Coral Gables is as good as any for Florida. It was a midnight party of Cuban music and Cuban-American politicians at the University of Miami's basketball stadium that was meant to stoke the fires of the hard-core exile population here,...
Sanz Box

A Spanish singer, two employees, and a flawed legal case

By Tristram Korten
Mar 15, 2007

In mid-December Spanish balladeer and Miami Beach resident Alejandro Sanz suddenly announced to the media that he had an illegitimate three-year-old son. A few days later an apparent motive for the announcement revealed itself when authorities arrested two of Sanz's former employees for theft and extortion. At first it all...
Terrorist or Trickster

Did a career criminal foil a potentially catastrophic attack on Miami? Or was I just duped?

By Tristram Korten
Oct 20, 2005

The call came in the middle of the day. They normally did. And once I heard his voice, I knew it would be far more interesting than sorting through my notes about Miami's latest bureaucratic squabble. His voice was husky and animated: "It was Memorial Day weekend in 2001 and...
Exit the Mascot

By Tristram Korten
Sep 22, 2005

Jacob DiPietre, Gov. Jeb Bush's closed-mouth press secretary, has left his government job to join Team Disney in Orlando as Goofy's mouthpiece. This past June, New Times described DiPietre's refusal to answer three weeks of telephone calls requesting comment about a judicial appointment. That story also highlighted DiPietre's stint as...
Unintended Consequences

After thirteen years in Miami, Omila Foufoune Cesaire faces deportation to the Haiti she fled in fear

By Tristram Korten
Sep 15, 2005

The United States can represent many things to the world's impoverished, but in late September 1992, this country meant one very basic thing to Omila Foufoune Cesaire: safety. She was in a panic to escape the murderous gangs and lethally berserk military that prowled the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing...

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