Two familiar faces face off with jingles, insults in nasty Hialeah mayoral race

Two familiar faces face off with jingles, insults in nasty Hialeah mayoral race

Fight nearly breaks out at early voting, caught on video There are actually five candidates in the Hialeah mayoral race that ends Tuesday, but three of them don’t really count. This election has become a head to head war between former Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo and former Hialeah Councilwoman Isis Garcia-Martinez. They’re sucking all […]

Hialeah’s Paul Hernandez switches parties, turns Dem after Capitol siege

Hialeah’s Paul Hernandez switches parties, turns Dem after Capitol siege

Finally, a local Republican has taken a strong stand against the party for it’s lukewarm response to the insurgents’ siege on The Capitol earlier this month: Hialeah Councilman Paul “Pablitiquito” Hernández is turning blue. He made the decision almost two weeks ago, right after the “attempted coup on the building that represents our first branch […]

Lawsuit aims to take Carlos Hernandez off Hialeah ballot

Lawsuit aims to take Carlos Hernandez off Hialeah ballot

Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez is termed out and cannot run for another term. So says a lawsuit filed Monday by a former mayor that seeks to keep him off the ballot this November. Hernandez was council president and automatically became the mayor when former Mayor Julio Robaina resigned  in May 2011 to run for Miami-Dade […]

Hialeah Hoodlums recruit from the Carlos Gimenez gang

Hialeah Hoodlums recruit from the Carlos Gimenez gang

It looks like the Hialeah Hoodlums — otherwise known as Mayor Carlos Hernandez and his Seguro Que Yes crew of crooked council members –– were recruiting for their criminal enterprise last week. And they peeled a few members off of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s old G-Men gang. Campaign Finance Chair and graft master Ralph Garcia-Toledo, shake-down […]

Sweetwater creates job for Hialeah councilwoman’s son

Sweetwater creates job for Hialeah councilwoman’s son

With one hand, Sweetwater Mayor Jose Diaz fired a bunch of people to “clean house” and get rid of the cronies left over from the administration of former and disgraced Mayor Manny “Maraña” Maroño, who is now serving three years in the pen on federal public corruption charges. With the other, Diaz hired Alexis Martinez, […]

Hialeah 2015 council races will heat up early in 2014

Hialeah 2015 council races will heat up early in 2014

As New Year’s Eve approaches, everyone looks anxiously to the state and local elections in 2014. But in one of Ladra’s favorite cities, the heat is already turning up for elections that won’t come ’til 2015. And, when you start to peel the political onion, it’s really about the elections in 2017. Make no mistake […]

‘Casals-Muñoz Consultants’ open for biz

‘Casals-Muñoz Consultants’ open for biz

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. […]