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How Rubio helped his ex-con brother-in-law acquire a real estate license
When Marco Rubio was majority whip of the Florida House of Representatives, he used his official position to urge state regulators to grant a real estate license to his brother-in-law,…
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Homeless in Miami: The Church by the Sea
In Miami, you get so used to reading about buildings that have stood for decades biting the dust to make way for our local deity — Development. The Church by the Sea has stood for…
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Merry Christmas – shopping?
Outward perfection should not overpower the spiritual content of this joyful season. When one is far from his loved ones, one realizes that, of all the possible gifts, a love-filled hug…
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Treating Florida’s children poorly: Cynicism multiplied by chutzpah
The Florida legislature instantly qualified for the hottest ring of hell when in 2011 it passed a law that transformed the state’s Children’s Medical Services program from one based on…
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Havana-Costa Rica-Miami(?): A voyage to prove love
Every night, before turning off the bedside lamp in the hostel where she has been sleeping for the past 20 days, Sofía rekindles her hopes, thinking that soon she will embrace Gaby,…
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Let’s call him the fabulist
Give the junior senator from Florida credit. It is his gift: a great ability to fabulate, convince others that his story is true, and then turn his tales into dollars.
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The city of ‘Cubaneo’
In South Florida, home to most of the 2 million émigrés from the Caribbean island, this mode of relating to one another became widespread. It is no secret that, beginning half a century…
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Marco Rubio: Beauty and the beast
Marco Rubio presents a nice persona but his ideology and his policy positions from the time he was in the Florida legislature to this moment are mean, mean, mean.
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The day of ‘the call’
The prices of telephony between the two countries render unaffordable a communication that resembles the spontaneous course of love. Circumstances impose that you seek other ways, turn…
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Scum rises to the top
It seems that the reign of error is more common than the reign of terror in Miami and that scum rises to the top when the flow of power and dollars goes in that direction.
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