Video blasts U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez for silence on ending TPS, deportations

Video blasts U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez for silence on ending TPS, deportations

“¡Cobarde! ¡Mudo!” Coward! Voiceless! These are the names the narrator calls Congressman Carlos Gimenez in a video released Thursday that shames the former Miami-Dade mayor for his silence and complicity on Donald Trump’s immigration policies, including the rollback of protected status for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, many of whom live in his community. “Where […]

Cuban American congress members stay silent on TPS, immigrant detention

Cuban American congress members stay silent on TPS, immigrant detention

Miami-Dade Dems launch billboard campaign The smug mugs of the four Miami-Dade Cuban American Republicans in Washington, D.C., who have sat silently by as the Donald Trump administration rolls back protections afforded to refugees from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and Nicaragua, are now featured on a billboard seen from the busy Palmetto Expressway with the word […]

Carlos Gimenez endorses Miami-Dade sheriff candidate Rosie Cordero-Stutz

Carlos Gimenez endorses Miami-Dade sheriff candidate Rosie Cordero-Stutz

There are 17, count ’em, 17 candidates for the Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s election — so far. But only one of them scored what is likely the mother of all endorsements. Congressman Carlos Gimenez — the former county mayor who served as the de facto sheriff in that role — has come out for Miami-Dade Police […]

Donald Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio, together again, as friends not foes

Donald Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio, together again, as friends not foes

Parade of who’s who in the Florida GOP poured praise on ex POTUS What a difference six years makes. In 2016, when both Sen. Marco Rubio and a businessman named Donald Trump were competing for the Republican nomination for president, they called each other names and hurled insults at one another. “Little Marco,” as Trump […]

Miami Cuban Dems bring a bunch of 2022 candidates together in one night

Miami Cuban Dems bring a bunch of 2022 candidates together in one night

Anybody who wants to meet the Democratic candidates running for office in this month’s primary can find a bunch of them at Beat Culture Brewery Friday night at an event organized by Miami Cuban Dems. Among the confirmed candidates are two who want to reclaim congressional seats lost in 2020: Sen. Annette Taddeo, who is […]

Kevin McCarthy acts like Fidel Castro as Miami-Dade electeds look away

Kevin McCarthy acts like Fidel Castro as Miami-Dade electeds look away

Oh, the irony! Here was Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy standing in the Bay of Pigs museum in Hialeah Gardens, blasting the Cuban government — because, you know, he’s not going to get left out of the trend — saying that people are being picked up off the street as they cry for freedom, when the […]

Top cause for COVID mask, ‘jab’ reluctance is right wing anti-science

Top cause for COVID mask, ‘jab’ reluctance is right wing anti-science

By GUEST COLUMNIST George Volsky Statistics daunt. Early this month, more than 200 million cases of Covid-19 and 614,000 deaths, were recorded in 182 countries. These totals, believed to be considerably undercounted, unequivocally confirm that the pandemic  that appeared to have stabilized at the beginning of the year, has surged anew. This is due mainly […]

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