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I cried when my millennial daughter walked into the living room and told me, “Hey, Fidel Castro died.” The daughter of a former journalist, she offered her source: “The BBC is reporting it.”

Early this morning, Miami awoke to the sound of firecrackers popping, car horns blaring, and pots and pans clanging in Little Havana: “¡Fidel Castro,” they shouted in the street, “está muerto!” It’s an odd feeling in a metropolis where thousands of Cuban exilios have waited for nearly five decades for an end to the reign…

For days after Hurricane Matthew battered the coast of Haiti Tuesday, October 4, people living in the country’s most remote areas looked for ways to communicate with the outside world. With cell towers down, they couldn’t talk to faraway loved ones or send photos of the damage. Journalists from all over the world parachuted in to survey the destruction in larger cities such as Port-au-Prince, but accessing rural villages was out of the question at that point.

Chris Emerson and his horse Trigger left Greenwood, South Carolina, last week and headed south. The pair passed through Georgia, into Florida, and nearly made it all the way to Key West before a TV news crew spotted them in West Palm Beach and asked what they were up to…

If the artist took himself seriously, he might make this his creative statement: “I think it was just because I thought he was such a piece of crap.” Recently, the South Beach resident has been sticking photos of President-elect Donald J. Trump into steaming piles of dog shit. He calls the…

José Martí International Airport in Havana appears much as it did in the early 1960s. Large Casablanca fans, peeling paint, vinyl tiles, and faded plastic poster boards direct the flow of visitors to customs. The only sign of modernity to greet arrivals in the international terminal is a large billboard…

In September 2015, Elizabeth De Amat texted her landlord, Louis Puig, about a leak coming from upstairs. “The ceiling in the guest bathroom is leaking, and the floor is full of water,” she wrote. “Can you please have someone come fix it?” She says Puig — who founded legendary Miami dance club Space…

Since Donald Trump won the country’s presidential election last week, the prevailing wisdom from Trump’s supporters online has been “shut up, you lost, deal with the status quo.” This is bad advice. It’s never a good idea to sit back and accept anything in politics you don’t like. And so,…

Earlier this month, 16-year-old Jordan Nordelus was fading in and out of consciousness as bleeding that would kill him filled his lungs. Then a hospital visitor piped up that the University of Miami football team had beat Pitt. “He flashed the UM sign,” said his mother, Emma, a health specialist…

Now that Donald Trump has been elected president, a handful of Miami residents are turning to the internet to crowdfund their way out of the country.