Miami-Dade’s Steve Bovo passes Cuba COVID travel ban, ignores Hialeah

Miami-Dade’s Steve Bovo passes Cuba COVID travel ban, ignores Hialeah

Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo got his colleagues on county commissioner to approve urging the Federal Aviation Administration to prohibit travel to and from Cuba due to the coronavirus cases on the island. They also urged Gov. Ron DeSantis to issue an executive order imposing isolation and quarantine on airline travelers to Florida from Cuba. Maybe Bovo […]

Carlos Hernandez uses Cuban seminar excuse to wage war on ethics board

Carlos Hernandez uses Cuban seminar excuse to wage war on ethics board

In a sick plot twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan, Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez flipped the script on the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust Tuesday and announced that his city had been investigating the agency’s possible expenditure of public taxpayer dollars on a seminar this past March about doing business in and with Cuba. […]

Gimenez on Matthews: Campaign optics, not leadership

Gimenez on Matthews: Campaign optics, not leadership

Breaking news: Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is Cuban again. Gimenez wrote a letter to TV show host and author Chris Matthews Thursday blasting the political pundit, host of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, for his comment about a boring GOP debate without Donald Trump. “Whose going to watch a debate between the two Cuban guys,” […]

County commission says adios to local Cuban consulate

County commission says adios to local Cuban consulate

Hey, President Obama: We don’t want your stinkin’ Cuban consulate here. Okay? Let the spies go to Tampa or Key West. That’s what Miami-Dade Commissioners told the leader of the free world last week when they voted to approve a resolution that urges the federal government to seek another location for a consular office to […]

Another open letter to Cuban-Americans — sans biz interests

Another open letter to Cuban-Americans — sans biz interests

Did you hear the one about the group of Cuban-American businessmen who went to Havana and had such a good time, they came back and bought a page in the Miami Herald to tell the rest of us how wonderful everything is on the Communist-run island? It’s not a joke. The 10 signers to the […]

South Florida Dems on Obama and opening up to Cuba

South Florida Dems on Obama and opening up to Cuba

Debbie does not do Havana. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, is not down with President Barack Obama‘s warming up to the Cuban government and told The Daily Signal last week — again, because she’s said it before — that the U.S. should perhaps wait to normalize relations as some kind […]