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Conexión Miami / Raonel and gold fever
From Miami gold thief Raonel Valdez Valhuerdis to Aroldis Chapman and his 100+ mph fastball, and now metal plate in his forehead, and also Marco Rubio's presidential aspirations,…
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Crist: A high-risk diver
Charlie Crist, former Republican governor of Florida, now a Democratic candidate to that post, makes a high-risk, high-altitude dive when he states that the United States' policy toward…
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More Miami Herald propaganda to smear Cuba
What the Herald is trying to do is not so subtly smear Cuba by placing the thought in the readers' mind that Medicare fraudsters in this country run off to fraudster paradise, in this…
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Joe Biden talks to the immigrants
Joe Biden is a nice guy. He has the smile of an actor, Paul Newman-style, the easy and flowing gab of his Irish ancestors and the warm voice of a well-trained announcer. It was people…
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The impecunious politician: A vanishing breed
An urban legend with a splash of Hollywood glitter tells us that anyone with enough ambition, discipline and effort can rise to Congress or the White House. The truth is that, other…
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Conexión Miami / A newspaper’s fantasies
Miami's Diario Las Americas wants its readers to believe that someone who has fled to Cuba running from charges of Medicare fraud, and who has not been returned by the Cuban…
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Group pressure
In South Florida, hard-working men have their barbecues -- or "barbikiús," as they call them. I was at one of them, trying to mix with the locals with a chunk of meat in one hand and a…
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Rivera’s back. And we thought we’d ridden ourselves of the cockroach
David Rivera announced that he will challenge Garcia for the 26th congressional district seat the incumbent wrested from him in 2012. He blamed "lies propagated by the Miami Herald" for…
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Conexión Miami / Animals, fetishes and sex
Miami-Dade prosecutors have accused model Sara Zamora, 28, of torturing chickens and rabbits... while making a series of pornographic videos uploaded to the Web.
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The squandering of public money
Residents of Miami-Dade County usually have a vague impression that our tax money is not always utilized properly. It is a realistic suspicion, based partly on accusations that we hear…
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