Álvaro Fernández 384 posts 17 comments

Schizophrenia is nothing new to Miami. But the recent uproar caused by a piece on Alfy Fanjul takes the cake. It demonstrates that the Cuba debate has pivoted.
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Governor Scott has pulled Miami’s Lopez-Cantera out of his bag of tricks. The state’s number two political job had been vacant for more than a year.
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President Barack Obama bounded up the stairs to the stage at FNB stadium in Johannesburg to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela. The first person he saw was Cuban President Raul Castro. Obama…
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How do you mix poetry with technology? President Obama inaugural poet Richard Blanco made it happen by emphasizing that “love is our wisest formula … our most noble science, most…
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Rep. Wasserman Schultz should be ashamed of her demagoguery. Comparing the Holocaust and Cuba is insensitive and opportunistic. As for the deadly disease that affects so many in her…
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There are an extra 47,000 persons out of work today in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale areas because of the U.S. government shutdown. It has sent as many as 770,000 employees home, delayed…
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25% of persons who live in the congressional districts of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart would go hungry if they were not to receive federally subsidized food stamps. But the…
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WLRN radio station has apologized for canceling an interview with the author of a book that criticizes the Miami trial of five Cuban agents, and has re-invited him to appear.
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Starting next week, Wednesday Sept. 18, The Miami Herald will start publishing ‘Caliente.’ It is being described by some on the inside as a weekly, gossipy magazine in Spanish. They…
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This may be the first time Sen. Marco Rubio and I stand on the same side of a political decision. Add to that the possibility that Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart may jump on board also, and I…
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