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David Rivera: Guilty, finally
The story of David Rivera is not just about one man’s fall—it’s about how privilege, access, and political power can be leveraged for personal gain with remarkable persistence. For…
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The ‘bosses’ from Miami
In the 1960s, the CIA used to refer to its best Cuban agents as “golden boys.” They were, for the most part, young men from good families, educated in elite private schools, with time…
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79% of Miami Cubans support U.S. military intervention in Cuba: shameful
A recent poll conducted for the Miami Herald by Bendixen & Amandi International and The Tarrance Group reveals something both striking and deeply unsettling: 79% of Cubans and Cuban…
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War, drones, and dollars: South Florida’s stake in Trump’s presidency for profit
In South Florida, the clash of politics and money is nothing new. But what is happening now under Donald Trump is different from the usual. It's turning the presidency into a source of…
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Balancing the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable South Floridians
When South Florida members of Congress Mario Díaz-Balart, Carlos Giménez, and María Elvira Salazar voted for a balanced-budget constitutional amendment, they aligned with a familiar…
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Díaz-Balart and Giménez serve donor$$, not their constituents
(Editor's Note: Florida Bulldog on April 12 published an article titled: Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava’s PAC got $100K from Li’l Abner developer, she helped him secure $9 million in…
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What does it mean to be a good Cuban American?
What does it mean to be a good Cuban American? If you’d have asked me that question six years ago my answer would have been the standardized one, because it was an answer that had been…
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Alex Otaola: The Miami clown turning democracy into a spectacle
There’s political activism, and then there’s what Alexander “Alex” Otaola has turned Miami-Dade politics into: a rolling reality-TV-style spectacle fueled by hyper-partisan rhetoric,…
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Are there fundamental changes occurring within Miami’s Cuban electorate?
For more than half a century, Cuban American politics in Miami has centered on a single word: communism.
It has shaped elections, defined loyalties, and turned local races over…
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Impostors
If you live in Miami, you’ve probably seen it with your own eyes.
Walk through downtown—off Flagler Street, near the almost billion-dollar, taxpayer-funded courthouse. You’ll find…
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