Eye Openers + Miami Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

September 14, 2009

Cuban Exile’s Plan for a Ferry From Miami to Havana Is Awaiting U.S. Approval

August 17, 2009

Poor Catholic Latinos in Miami-Dade under siege with Diocese plan to close neighborhood churches

July 14, 2009

Long-time political mover and shaker Joe Garcia -a Democrat from Miami Beach, was nominated Tuesday to be director of the Office of Minority Economic Impact for the U.S. Department of Energy.

June 19, 2009

Cleveland Browns receiver Donte’ Stallworth pleaded guilty this month to a DUI manslaughter charge for striking Mario Reyes on March 14 in Miami. He began serving a 30-day jail sentence Tuesday and has reached a financial settlement with the family of the 59-year-old construction worker. After jail, he must serve two years of house arrest and spend eight years on probation.

March 24, 2009

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on Monday sued a Miami company, alleging the company targets Hispanics facing foreclosure and charges them upfront fees to modify their mortgages. – Lincoln Lending Services LLC

March 21, 2009

MIAMI — Cuban-American voters here remain dominated by an older generation with more extreme views on U.S.-Cuba foreign policy, including support for the U.S. embargo against their communist homeland, according to an exit poll taken during the 2008 election.

September 25, 2008

Cuban population in Miami-Dade up again – Since 2000, the number of Cubans in Miami-Dade has grown larger as a percentage of all Hispanics, reversing a three-decade demographic trend.

August 18, 2008

Big Trouble in Little Havana – For the first time in 20 years, Democrats are mounting serious challenges to at least two of Miami’s three Republican lawmakers, who often run unopposed.

August 14, 2008

Roberto Clemente Park is the pride of Miami’s Puerto Rican population. But the park in the Wynwood neighborhood has languished despite a voter-approved initiative to improve city parks.

August 8, 2008

Spy catcher claims four are agents for Cuba – A U.S. intelligence expert has named four people as Cuban agents in the United States, including two in the Miami area.

July 14, 2008

Will Little Havana Go Blue?

May 7, 2008

Luis Posada Carriles, a terror suspect abroad, enjoys a ‘coming-out’ in Miami

April 8, 2008

An Ecuadorean couple facing deportation are appealing an immigration judge’s refusal to hear their claim that they were unfairly targeted because their daughter is an immigration activist. – Miami

January 22, 2008

Creditors seek millions from companies owned by Salvadoran elite – 01/20/2008 – MiamiHerald.com