Florida

By Varela As I see it, when on Nov. 12 the presidential team (Obama was in China) agreed to answer the questions posed by Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, it did two things. First, it paid…
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Al’s Loupe Gaming the Miami political system By Alvaro F. Fernandez alfernandez@the-beach.net If Lewis Carroll had been around today and living in Miami, and he had yet to write his…
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Al’s Loupe By Alvaro F. Fernandezalfernandez@the-beach.net Last week I wrote about Tomas Regalado, Miami’s recently elected mayor. In that column I mentioned my disappointment with…
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(Editor’s Note: This letter was published as an advertisement paid for by the Foundation For Normalization of US/Cuba Relations which recently appeared in the Sun Sentinel edition…
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By Lorenzo Gonzalo The moment that President Manuel Zelaya declared that the proposal for an accord made by the putschist government led by Roberto Micheletti was “a dead letter,” the…
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Al’s Loupe Miami has a new mayor, next up on the agenda: Cuba and Venezuela By Alvaro F. Fernandez alfernandez@the-beach.net Miami has a new mayor. His name is Tomas Regalado.…
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By Alejandro Armengol From El Nuevo Herald A multimillion-dollar industry exists in Spain, a segment of the trashy media: television programs devoted to commenting on the lives of…
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Al’s Loupe Ferre can win by tackling the Cuba issue By Alvaro F. Fernandez alfernandez@the-beach.net After a brief stint in the Florida legislature, Maurice Ferre became mayor of…
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In last week’s Al’s Loupe column I reported that Kendrick Meek would most likely drop out of the U.S. Senate race to fill the seat vacated by Mel Martinez last month. This week across…
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Today we begin a new chapter in the 30-year history of Marazul, which was founded in 1979. We are the professionals for everything related to Cuba travel. With this new column our goal…
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