Qualifying for the city of Hialeah elections — which was moved up two months — is over today. And we have two new candidates in the mayoral and council elections. Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez is going to go up against two other opponents: Activist Juan Santana, who doesn’t stand a chance, and former Mayor Julio […]
A former Hialeah mayor is running for his old seat again, challenging Mayor Carlos Hernandez in this November’s coming election. But it’s the other Martinez. Julio Martinez, who ran for council in 2011 and lost to Councilman Jose Caragol, told Ladra he was driving to City Hall late Monday morning to qualify for the race. […]
Could this year’s mayoral election in Hialeah turn out to be a rematch? Former Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez — who lost a bitter race against Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez in 2011 — walked into City Hall Wednesday morning and walked out with a candidate package. He said he didn’t mean to. Martinez, who has remained […]
Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez — who likes to intimidate and silence his critics — has certainly earned his new nickname with his latest show of force and abuse of power against one of his biggest foes, Fire Union Vice President Eric Johnson. And just in time, as the heat turns up in the county […]
She threatened to get involved in the county’s judicial races and now Absentee Ballot Queen Sasha Tirador has made good on that. But she is not the only piece of the Hialeah political machine driving the candidacy of former Hialeah cop John “Johnny” Rodriguez, who is Miami Lakes Vice Mayor Cesar Mestre‘s law partner. Standing […]
After about a half dozen or so empty threats to get cease and desist letters from one angry and unethical political operative who I keep exposing, Ladra finally got one last month. But not from an expected source. No, it was from an old friend, which makes it worse. Hialeah hunk and secret agent political […]
Hialeah CouncilwomanVivian Casals-Muñoz may leave her days of notarizing questionable mortgage documents behind forever to become, drum roll, a lobbyist. Casals-Muñoz, who has been a much higher profile pol after her sweeping November election victory, filed papers Jan. 17 with the Florida Division of Corporations to open a new business called Vivian Casals-Muñoz Consultants, LLC. […]
Imagine a government that not only encourages thugs to intimidate and harass, even batter, critics but then uses their investigative branch to humiliate the victims and cover up the corruption and crime. Sounds like Cuba. But this place is farther north. It’s Hialeah, where newly-elected Mayor Carlos Hernandez continues to abuse his power and those […]