Not everyone was so surprised to hear about Hialeah alcaldito Carlos Hernandez‘s loansharking business. What surprised some people was that it took so long to come out again. But we can probably thank el alcaldito himself for that — and the campaign. And TV news host Oscar Haza, perhaps. And former Mayor and front-running candidate […]
Tuesday’s episode of As Hialeah Churns was [almost] a real sleeper. There was (of course) no restraining order awaiting Ladra at City Hall when she went — without incident — to the city council meeting. There was no verbal sparring between the Dark Prince and the man who thinks he’s king. There was no sea of red […]
Forget Nov. 1. The election in Hialeah starts today. That’s when absentee voters will begin to get their ballots in their mail. Then, they’ll each probably get a phone call from one campaign or the other to ask if they received their absentee ballot and if they know what to do with it — or maybe want help to fill […]
When we in South Florida read about a place where government officials use the armed forces to investigate and intimidate opposition leaders and independent journalists because they threaten their iron-fisted rule, we are usually reading about Havana or Caracas. Not Hialeah, U.S.A. But Ladra’s suspicions that the mayor and perhaps one or more council members are abusing their […]
At the 11th hour — and on the eve of the all-important absentee ballot mailing in Hialeah — el alcaldito Carlos Hernandez stood for a photo op on the back of a fire rescue truck with the president of the firefighters’ union, a man he has maligned for weeks, and basically thumped his chest. He’s […]
He’s baaaaaaaack. Former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina has been lying low since he lost the county mayoral race against Carlos Gimenez in June. Save for one radio interview — where he declined to say who he was going to support (but, c’mon! We know it’s el alcaldito!) — he’s been kind of MIA on the […]
What? It can happen! Ladra saw it with her own very eyes. Eight council candidates were at the Hialeah Association of Commerce and Neighbors for the group’s 30th anniversary dinner Saturday night — including the four Back to the Future slate mates who mugged for the camera with incumbent Councilwoman Vivian Casals-Muñoz. And Ladra really, really wishes […]
Wanted: Surrogate reporter to attend the next Hialeah Council meeting or two since Ladra may be ordered to stay 500 feet away. Duties include listening to the back-patting council rubber stamp everything before them. Pay is in shots of Cuban coffee. It was not enough for Council President Isis “Gavelgirl” Garcia-Martinez to have me ejected […]
One of the candidates in the Hialeah elections may be in the race or may have switched his group at the last minute to get favorable treatment for his business from the city and alcaldito Carlos Hernandez. Tony “Phony” Vega, the owner of a gun shop cited for building an illegal gun range last year, told a […]
While Papi has been mum on the threat to fire firefighters in Hialeah — and potential impact to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue when the county starts taking up the slack on the city’s 911 calls — Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s namesake son and spitting image has been spotted in Hialeah in recent days. Attorney Carlos “Junior” Gimenez was seen […]