Topics

15 November, 2019

@VMMacchi “Hazte de fama y acuéstate a dormir” is a good one.

15 November, 2019

RT @jessicalipscomb: Federal investigators say William Foster intentionally recruited vulnerable young women and girls from foster care, sh…

14 November, 2019

New Times first wrote about Mirmelli in 2013, when a lot he ran in South Beach drew ire for misleading signs that l… https://t.co/UzH3ynQaMX

14 November, 2019

RT @AABerwick: My latest: @skinosian & I spent months investigating killings committed by Venezuela's FAES special police. We spoke to over…

13 November, 2019

RT @DylanBaddour: UNHCR just handed out docs describing their 2020 response plan to Venezuelan migration. The agency predicts a 6.5 million…

Manuel Madrid

Manuel Madrid is a staff writer for Miami New Times. The child of Venezuelan immigrants, he grew up in Pompano Beach. He studied finance at Virginia Commonwealth University and worked as a writing fellow for the magazine The American Prospect in Washington, D.C., before moving back to South Florida.

Latest Stories

Feds Say Delray Man Targeted Foster Children as Recruits in Sex-Trafficking Scheme

1 day ago | Crime

Offering fancy clothes and luxury cars as bait to recruit vulnerable girls into years of prostitution, William Foster used South Florida as a home base for an expansive sex trafficking operation for at least 15 years, federal agents alleged in a c...
Auditors Say Miami Parking Operator Hid Nearly $900,000 in Unreported Revenue

3 days ago | News

Private parking lot operators in Miami are a lot like telemarketers and loan sharks: No matter how good of a job they do, it's still hard to like them. In a city where urban sprawl and stripped-back public transportation have effectively forced ca...
Second Florida Petition for Recreational Marijuana Gathers Enough Signatures

3 days ago | Marijuana

The road to recreational marijuana in Florida is long and full of obstacles, but the legalization movement continues to gain momentum. Today the advocacy group Make It Legal Florida announced that its petition to put legal weed on the ballot in 20...
Here's What's at Stake in the Latest Vote on Beckham's Miami Soccer Stadium

5 days ago | News

A single vote today could dash David Beckham's dreams of building a Major League Soccer stadium in Miami. City of Miami commissioners will meet this morning to consider the fate of Miami Freedom Park, a proposed $1 billion commercial complex inclu...
PETA's "Worst Circus in America" Comes to Miami

8 days ago | Business

The circus is coming to town, but not everyone is celebrating. Sarasota-based Garden Bros. Circus, whose current North American tour has been met with protests and scathing news reports on several stops, must be hoping to encounter a warmer welcom...
Miami Beach Commission Race Comes Down to Literally One Vote

10 days ago | Election

There are tight elections, and then there's yesterday's race for the Group IV seat on the Miami Beach City Commission, which was so close it makes Gore-Bush look like a cakewalk.