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When dogma kills
By Max J. Castro
MIAMI - It seems like the mother of all no-brainers. In a country where tens of millions lack access to medical care, the federal government is offering the states…
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Air-conditioning in hell
By Alvaro F. Fernandez
“If they’d told me in Cuba of the crisis going on in this country, I would have stayed there.”
- Cuban dissident now living in Spain
MIAMI -…
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Hispanic vote pivotal in Florida
By Anthony Man
From the South Florida Sun Sentinel
Democrats and Republicans who disagree on just about everything are in sync on one subject: If they want to win Florida's…
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Peddlers of smoke
By Yadira Escobar
MIAMI – Last May 4, at an arts store on Miami's Calle Ocho, a group of Cubans met with the leader of Estado de Sats to formally fantasize about the collapse of…
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For whom the sun dims
By Max J. Castro
MIAMI - “Dolphins’ dream crushed,” screamed the top-of-page 1A headline in Sunday’s Miami Herald.
Such a tragedy: the Florida Legislature, in…
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Shadows over the Sunshine State
By Max J. Castro
MIAMI - Florida. They call it the Sunshine State. At least, that’s what the public relation shills for the tourist industry and the chambers of commerce like…
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The little gold cup
By Yadira Escobar
MIAMI – Berta Soler, leader of the Ladies in White, said in Madrid that Cuba before the Revolution – that is, dictator Fulgencio Batista's Cuba – was "a golden…
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The dream of being a professional
By Sabina Covo
From the blog SabinaCovo.com
MIAMI – While talk continues on a very likely immigration reform this year, thousands of undocumented children in the United States…
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Opportunism and meatballs
Al’s Loupe
Opportunism and meatballs
By Alvaro F. Fernandez
MIAMI - Director Philip Lord is a very bright, young man. No doubt he’s on many A lists of up and coming Hollywood…
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President Obama: Go to Havana
By Gimleteye
From Eye on Miami
In 1976 I was in my final weeks as a Yale undergraduate, drinking coffee from a fire hose and hopelessly anxious that I would ever graduate.
The…
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