While Puerto Ricans living in Orlando, New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere were voting for president of the United States on Tuesday, those living on the island were deciding that they want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state.
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Angel Castillo Jr 
“I am a bilingual and bicultural native of Cuba who is happy to live and vote in Miami-Dade County, where 70 percent of the 2.5-million population speak a language other than English at home, 65 percent are of Hispanic origin, and nearly 1.2-million were born in another country. Sometimes the rich human diversity of this environment produces a perspective on matters of concern to Floridians that is slightly different from that of -- and not always well understood by -- those living in other counties, and which I hope to reflect in my columns.”
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While Cuba’s ailing Communist Comandante Fidel Castro, 86, waits for death in Havana and his trip to hell, it is a good time to remember how he tried – and thankfully failed -- to push the world into a nuclear holocaust 50 years ago.
Before dawn on “Black Saturday,” Oct. 27, 1962, the then 36-year-old Cuban dictator transmitted an encrypted “Armageddon” letter to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev...
It is not often that you can demonstrate factually that a pro-Obama member of the national media has publicly shown bias while trying to help the President get re-elected. Tuesday night’s presidential debate provided such an opportunity.
I am referring to CNN’s Washington-based chief political correspondent, Candy Crowley, the moderator for the second nationally televised debate between President Barack Obama and...
One thing is clear from the recent Venezuelan presidential election: Expect more Venezuelans to move to South Florida.
Another is that the opposition movement against the winner, socialist Hugo Chavez, is better organized and stronger than at any time since Chavez was first elected president in 1998.
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Who wins Florida’s crucial 29 electoral votes in next month’s presidential election may well come down to who can best woo Hispanic voters.
Multiple national polls show an overwhelming majority of African-American voters, and a majority of unmarried women and young voters, will vote to re-elect President Obama. By contrast, more white men and older voters will vote for former Massachusetts Gov....
If President Obama is serious about protecting freedom of speech in this country, he must instruct his Justice Department to criminally prosecute those offering money for the murder of the producer of the controversial video “Innocence of Muslims.”
The man behind the offensive anti-Islamic video, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, an Egyptian-born resident of southern California, is the target of murder-for-money threats...
Having sworn – twice – when taking office in 2009 that he would “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” President Obama has shamefully decided not to obey his oath regarding the First Amendment.
Obama’s ham-handed effort to intimidate Google, which owns YouTube, into taking down the controversial video “Innocence of Muslims” was a censorship effort worthy of the most...
As Venezuela prepares to hold its presidential election Oct. 7, its leftist president, Hugo Chavez, has ominously threatened his countrymen: Vote for me or there will be a civil war.
Chavez, 58, in office since 1999, is facing the first substantial challenge from those who oppose his socialist agenda. The usually divided opposition parties have largely united behind Henrique Capriles, 40, a...
Imagine that 48 years after the attack on Fort Sumter in 1861, America’s Civil War was still unresolved and that in 1909, President Taft suddenly announced the commencement of peace negotiations.
Something like that is now happening in Colombia, a South American nation of more than 46 million people and a steady democratic ally of the United States.
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When he is wearing his customary sleeveless T-shirts, it is easy to spot Yoandys Lores. He’s the one sporting fashionable sunglasses, a Che Guevara-style black beret and a large portrait of a young Fidel Castro tattooed on his upper left arm.
Lores, whose stage name is “Baby Lores,” is a 28-year-old cigar-smoking, Cuban reggaeton singer whose music unabashedly extols the glories of the Castro...
