Terrorism returns to Miami
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
HAVANA – Finally, Miami’s Fire Department confirmed what the whole world knew and the FBI had refused to confirm: an incendiary bomb, delivered with the skill of an expert, destroyed the offices of the Airline Brokers travel agency, announcing the return of terrorism to the city.
Without the support of important groups of power in the United States, Cuban-American...
The U.S. war on Latin America
By Noam Chomsky
Though sidelined by the Secret Service scandal, last month’s Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, was an event of considerable significance. There are three major reasons: Cuba, the drug war, and the isolation of the United States.
Nefarious details in the Cuban Five case
By Saul Landau
I sit on a gray plastic chair, facing a tiny, gray, plastic table and another empty, gray, plastic chair, waiting for Gerardo Hernandez in the visiting room of the maximum-security federal pen in Victorville, California. Next to me, in similar seating arrangements, a middle-aged black man speaks to a woman...
Scott’s blunder underscores futility of Florida’s Cuba policy
By Michael Lewis
Gov. Rick Scott [recently] blundered in the minefield of professional anti-Castro politics. The blast smacked Florida's business climate while scarring him in nasty political theater.
He should have known better than to come to Miami to sign a clearly unconstitutional law to ban state or local...
Miami’s expensive
The annual Milliman Medical Index (MMI) measures the total cost of healthcare for a typical family of four covered by a preferred provider plan (PPO). The 2012 MMI cost is $20,728, an increase of $1,335, or 6.9% over 2011. The rate of increase is not as high as in the past, but the total dollar increase was still a record. This is the first year the average cost of healthcare for the typical American family of four has surpassed $20,000. Of the cities profiled the most expensive was Miami at $24,965 – more expensive than New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. The least expensive city was Phoenix at $18,365.
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Miami: A ‘Malecón’ for nostalgia
By Aurelio Pedroso
HAVANA – I read with interest that Havana’s emblematic Malecón has just been reproduced in miniature on Biscayne Bay, just like that other singular imitation of our Sanctuary of the Virgin of Charity of Cobre.
Younger Cuban-American voters shift away from the GOP and toward an independent outlook
By Alex Leary
MIAMI — Anton Fajardo voted for John McCain in 2008 but is now for Barack Obama.
Alex Toledo backed Obama yet likes Ron Paul.
State Dept. to grant visa to Raul Castro’s daughter
By Lachlan Markay
The U.S. State Department has decided to grant a visa to Mariela Castro Espin, daughter of Raul Castro, the country’s President and Premier, niece of notorious Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, despite laws precluding such visas from officials of the Cuban dictatorship.
Inequality under the law
By Max J. Castro
An article that that appeared in last Sunday’s Miami Herald brought home once again the force with which those words still apply – today, in the twenty-first century United States.
A lot has changed for the good in this country in the 100 or so years since France wrote those words about his country (France) – the political process has opened to women and minorities, Social Security and Medicare have made the life of seniors...
Ambitious reforms await enactment
By Gerardo Arreola
HAVANA – On paper, a new cycle of economic reforms in Cuba paints an ambitious horizon of potential expansion of the private sector and greater stimuli for agriculture. But although the decisions were approved months ago, they have not been enacted. The dates of application are unknown.
The pace of the economic changes on the island has been indecipherable so far. There is no way to translate into ordinary language how many weeks, months, or years are meant by the official line of “proceeding without haste but without pause.”
Vice President Marino Murillo, the reform’s principal manager, said in late March that “what was ordained so...
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By Bill Press
Samuel Gompers, the cigar maker who became a labor leader and founder of the AFL, was once asked: "What does labor want?" His answer was simple and direct: "More!"
"We do want more," he explained, "and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor."
Most recently, that same impatient demand was 
heard from America's LGBT community. Yes, they acknowledged, it's true. President...
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