Cuban Americans
Major Newspaper Endorsements, Polls Inspire Florida Democrats
Ron Levitt | Posted 10.21.2008 | Home
MIAMI -- Unless Democratic voters get over-confident and stay home on Nov. 4th, Florida will become a Blue State and provide 27 electoral votes to ...
McCain Campaign Palling Around with Terrorists in Miami?
Roberto Lovato | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
As the home of GOP-linked individuals known to advocate and use violence to advance their cause, South Florida is not the best place for Republicans to talk tough on terrorism.
Right-Wing Extremists Unmoved by Devastation in Cuba
Joe Garcia | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
The greatest impediment to the wellbeing of the Cuban people is the Cuban government itself. But this fact does not give us license to throw our hands in the air and not offer our help.
McCain's Problem with White Voters
Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
It is McCain who needs to score exceptionally well among white voters, better in fact than any other Republican presidential candidate in the past 20 years, including George H. W. Bush.
Obama Will Give Reform in Cuba a Nudge if Not a Shove
David Paul Appell | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics
In declaring his administration would meet with the Raúl Castro regime without preconditions, Obama was not being naïve but impeccably realistic.
Un Nuevo Dia: In Florida, Hispanics Are No Longer Majority Republican or Cuban
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
McCain's reliance on a failed, hard-line policy toward Cuba will not carry the weight with a very different Florida Hispanic electorate it once did.
Bush Administration, More Isolated in Latin America, Cries "Terrorism"
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Washington has alienated Latin America through its economic policy prescriptions, which are widely associated with Latin America's unprecedented long-term economic failure.
Time to Retire America's Failed Cuba Policy
Sarah Stephens | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
It was the express purpose of the U.S. embargo, with sanctions more comprehensive than any we impose on Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria to stop this transition. But it couldn't.
Our Terrorist in Miami
Medea Benjamin | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics
Luis Posada Carriles and his violent followers who impose their views in Miami through fear and intimidation are relics of the sordid history of U.S. policy in Latin America.
GOP Candidates On A Pander-Surge
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
Pandering to certain voting blocs is part of every election. And the 2008 race for the White House is certainly no different. But the Florida Republic...
I Don't Live In A Norman Rockwell Painting
Richard Morse | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics
To think that a Republican can get into the White House without a motivated Religious Right (instilling fear in us) and Cuban Americans offering up Florida, is naive.
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Stephen Elliott | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics