There are gestures, and then there are kneelings. This week in Washington, María Corina Machado , the longtime face of the Venezuelan resistance to its authoritarian government, walked into the Oval Office and placed her Nobel Peace Prize medal into Donald Trump’s hands like a medieval supplicant offering tribute to a monarch. Around the world, […]
Donald Trump has discovered a sudden, passionate love for protesters. Specifically, Iranian protesters. In recent days, the president has floated the idea of U.S. military intervention to “rescue” demonstrators facing repression abroad. He’s warned Iran not to harm them. He’s promised America is “locked and loaded.” He has cast himself as the muscular guardian of […]
Political amnesia: The day Edmundo González became optional Well, that didn’t take long. South Florida’s elected leaders have perfected the political pirouette — and Venezuela just watched them spin 180 degrees without missing a beat. After months — months — of pounding their chests, waving flags, and solemnly declaring Edmundo González Urrutia the rightful president of […]
Trump talks oil, we watch a regime change in real time So let’s dispense with the fairy tale right away. This past weekend, the United States didn’t “assist democracy,” didn’t “help the Venezuelan people,” and didn’t conduct some tidy law-enforcement operation against a bad hombre with a cocaine habit. The U.S. bombed a sovereign nation […]
And Miami’s immigrant families are on the menu Leave it to Donald Trump to turn Thanksgiving — a holiday about gratitude, family and not strangling your tío during political discussions — into a xenophobic midnight rant attacking immigrants. While everyone else was eating leftovers, the ex-president was online serving up a reheated plate of hate […]
What a difference a chat makes. It turns out that the big, scary socialist bogeyman that Miami politicians loved to weaponize in the recent mayor’s race — New York’s free Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, the one they tried to tie around Eileen Higgins’ neck like some kind of communism-flavored cowbell — is now, apparently, Donald Trump’s […]
The American Business Forum seemed more like an audition for him This past week, while millions of Americans faced lost food aid, shuttered programs and threats to their health coverage, downtown Miami staged a spectacle. You know the kind — velvet ropes, orchestral beats, VIP tickets, and a gilded ceremony that screams celebration even when […]
Looks like that shiny new Trump Presidential Library and Hotel in downtown Miami may be shelved. Historian, professor and activist Dr. Marvin Dunn filed a lawsuit this week to stop the transfer of prime downtown land next to the Freedom Tower — yes, that Freedom Tower, the one that symbolizes liberty and exile and means […]
Former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who was suspended from office after his 2023 arrest on public corruption charges — including bribery and money laundering — that were later dropped, has a new campaign video for his mayoral bid that could easily be titled The Resurrection of ADLP. The 30-second spot, which is […]
But voters feel chilling effect of cancel culture Well, here’s something you don’t see every day in Florida: a Democrat woman leading both Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump in a popularity contest — and not just in the 305 liberal bubble, either. According to the new Bendixen & Amandi poll of 600 voters between Sept. […]