MIAMI — Promising boycotts, protests and strikes, Cuban exile leaders expressed their fear that two Miami stations, Radio Mambí and WQBA — which have traditionally advocated for Cuba’s freedom — would be silenced after being bought by Latino Media Netw…
5 Haiti soccer players and their coach vanished from Special Olympics in Florida
MIAMI — They turned in their room keys and left behind their suitcases and other personal belongings. Why five Haitian soccer players and their coach decided to vanish while participating in the 2022 Special Olympics Games in Orlando remains a puzzling…
Greg Cote: Mickelson, Johnson, et al., are Saudi pawns pocketing blood money as LIV Golf Series begins
MIAMI — Dustin Johnson sat in front of a “LIV Golf” logo in England this week and, with a straight face, said, “I chose what’s best for me and my family.” The money, he meant. Blood money, but never mind that. When you have made a mere $72 million in y…
Attorneys in $1B Surfside settlement vowed to work at a discount. Will they get $100M?
MIAMI — In a packed courtroom last summer, as rescue teams were still digging up human remains after the collapse of a Surfside condo tower, a Miami-Dade judge declared the tragedy was “not going to be treated as business as usual” and gave an ultimatu…
Coast Guard takes back 49 Cuban migrants stopped off the Florida Keys
As what‘s become Tropical Storm Alex menaced South Florida at the end of last week, the Coast Guard stopped nearly 50 people from Cuba off the Florida Keys trying to migrate to the United States in separate incidents. The stops happened between Thursda…
The system that drenched South Florida Friday and Saturday is now Tropical Storm Alex
MIAMI — The system that drowned out Friday night and most of Saturday in Miami and Fort Lauderdale has strengthened, picked up a name, and is threatening Bermuda. Tropical Storm Alex isn’t South Florida’s problem anymore. The National Hurricane Center’…
There were 200 kidnappings in Haiti in May, UN agency says
Exactly one year after warring gangs shut down transportation links to the southern regions of Haiti, armed groups continue to restrict access to vulnerable communities in Port-au-Prince, forcing thousands of others from their homes on the eastern outs…
Blasting Biden on Latin America, Trump caters to familiar audience in Miami TV interview
MIAMI — Former President Donald Trump bragged about his gains with Hispanic voters in Miami in the 2020 election and slammed the Biden administration over its recent policy shifts in Cuba and Venezuela, during a prime-time interview with the Miami Span…
The Week Ahead: Inflation, confidence and the waning belief in a soft landing
Sell in May and go away is the tired investing adage. Well, will the investment markets now swoon in June? Talk of an impending recession grew much louder in May even without accompanying economic data pointing to an economy on the edge of contracting….
Cuba reduces sentences for some July 11 protesters, but activists warn crackdown continues
After a long struggle to get her son released from jail, Barbara Farrat shed tears of joy when the moment arrived last week. “We won a battle,” she said in a Facebook video announcing that her son, 18-year-old Jonathan Farrat Torres, who was imprisoned…