Essentials + Florida Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 5, 2009
Cuban Tomas Regalado was elected mayor of Miami with a pledge to control spending, limit property-tax increases and curtail development
October 5, 2009
Dominican Hanley Ramirez claims Florida Marlins’ first NL batting title – All-Star shortstop finishes ‘09 season with .342 average
October 2, 2009
Former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre is expected to announce Wednesday that he is running for the U.S. Senate, becoming only the second Hispanic Democrat to run statewide in Florida.
September 30, 2009
On this day in 1822, Joseph Marion Hernandez became the first Hispanic-American to serve in Congress as a delegate from the Florida Territory.
September 22, 2009
Ousted Florida Anchorman Charles Perez Speaks Out
White House seeks advice on getting Hispanics into college
Juan Sepulveda came to Miami on Monday to ask local educators for guidance in how to get more Hispanic students into college
September 10, 2009
Mel Martinez Exits Senate — With Some Regrets
August 18, 2009
U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Miami has taken himself off Gov. Charlie Crist’s shortlist of potential appointments to the U.S. Senate.
August 17, 2009
Poor Catholic Latinos in Miami-Dade under siege with Diocese plan to close neighborhood churches
August 16, 2009
Under pressure to pick a Hispanic to replace U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, Gov. Charlie Crist said Friday that U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart and former U.S. Attorney Bob Martinez are on the short list.
August 13, 2009
Miami Dr. Pedro José Greer Jr. Will Receive The U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.
August 7, 2009
Sources told the Miami Herald on Friday that Florida GOP Sen. Mel Martinez said he is going to resign before his term ends in 2010
June 19, 2009
Florida Senate Candidate Marco Rubio Speaks Spanish To Win Votes, But Espouses English-Only Policies
May 31, 2009
Lifting Cuban embargo a trade-off for South Florida business – Miami businesses could benefit — and be hurt — if the trade embargo against Cuba is lifted, a new report says.
March 10, 2009
Two prominent Miami-Dade brothers are scheduled to surrender to federal authorities Monday afternoon to begin their nine-year prison sentences for orchestrating a kickback scheme involving millions of dollars in contracts with a Kendall hospital. – Carlos and Jorge de Céspedes
December 22, 2008
Database of Cuban exiles rekindles memories – A Miami Herald database of Cuban exiles arriving on the Freedom Flights has attracted thousands of visitors and struck a chord with exiles.
December 19, 2008
Miami Cuban American Frank Jimenez nominated for Florida Supreme Court
December 17, 2008
Facing pressure to appoint more Hispanics to high-profile slots, President-elect Barack Obama is considering Miami-Dade Aviation Director José Abreu for a leadership post in the federal Department of Transportation.
December 5, 2008
La exhibición de una película sobre Ernesto “Che” Guevara, protagonizada por el puertorriqueño Benicio Del Toro generó polémica y protestas en Miami, la capital del exilio cubano por considerarla una afrenta.
A veteran spy catcher, Lt. Col. Chris Simmons, who publicly named people he claims are Cuban government agents, was sued Thursday in Miami federal court, where he was accused of malicious defamation by Silvia Wilhelm.
On Wednesday, Republican congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen got a call from President-elect Barack Obama, didn’t believe it was him, and hung up on him. Twice.
December 3, 2008
U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez’s announcement Tuesday that he will not run for reelection set off a political free-for-all throughout Florida, as a slew of would-be successors began jockeying for position in the state’s marquee race in 2010.
December 2, 2008
The 2010 Senate election cycle has barely started, but the Democrats’ top target has already emerged: Republican Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida.
November 21, 2008
Miami Mayor Manny Diaz, already under consideration for a high-level job with the Obama administration, doesn’t need another award to bolster his resume. He’s getting one anyway. U.S. News & World Report, in a piece posted Thursday on the magazine website, names Diaz among 24 people honored as ”America’s Best Leaders” for 2008.
November 17, 2008
Café Bustelo opens cafe in South Beach – Florida
Friends, foes watch Mel Martinez – Republicans are already eager for Mel Martinez to say whether he will run for reelection in 2010, while Democrats are hoping to vote him out of office.
November 12, 2008
Miami Mayor Manny Diaz — engineer of downtown’s building boom, president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, supporter of President-elect Barack Obama — may soon add a new title for his résumé: member of Obama’s administration.
November 11, 2008
Cost of burial turns Orlando-area Hispanics to cremation
November 6, 2008
Miami’s three Cuban-American congressional Republicans staved off the most serious challenges of their careers Tuesday, crushing Democratic hopes of making major inroads in the traditionally Republican Hispanic community – Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart & Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Obama first Democrat to win Florida’s Hispanic vote
October 27, 2008
Diversity among Hispanics presents challenge for presidential campaigns – Florida
October 24, 2008
Diaz-Balart secures $2M contract for firm that sold spy gear to Caracas – Miami Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart secured a $2 million contract for a firm that did business with Venezuela.
October 19, 2008
Miami’s Diaz-Balarts face first real challenge – U.S. Reps. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart vs. Raul Martinez, the ex-mayor of Hialeah, and Joe Garcia, a former head of a national Cuban-American group
October 6, 2008
The contest between incumbent U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart and former Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez has drawn national attention because it is expected to be close, and because it is colorful. – Economics to decide matchup
October 1, 2008
A New Latino Mix – Florida’s electorate gets more complex. Who benefits?
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.
September 24, 2008
Florida Hispanics sticking with GOP – With polls showing John McCain leading among Hispanics in Florida, Barack Obama rolled out Spanish- language ads calling his rival out of touch.
September 22, 2008
A Sun Sentinel-Florida Times-Union poll found that 48% of likely Hispanic voters in Florida back Republican presidential candidate John McCain, compared with 41% who support Democratic candidate Barack Obama. 10% remain undecided.
September 5, 2008
National GOP star Sen. Martinez shines less bright in Florida
The proposed Hispanic Achievers license plates were not approved by the state and now the group pushing the plates has filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida.
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.
Cuban doctors build new lives in Florida – Dozens of Cuban doctors who have left their posts in the medical missions abroad are working to establish a new life in Florida.
August 14, 2008
Recession drives educated Puerto Ricans to South Florida – thousands of middle-class professionals who have fled Puerto Rico in the past two years, becoming what some people are calling “FloRicans.”
Five years after arriving in Central Florida, El Nuevo Día Orlando, the region’s only daily Spanish-language newspaper, is closing.
August 12, 2008
University of Central Florida Researchers Creating Multimedia History of Puerto Ricans in Central Florida
August 11, 2008
In Central Florida, there are almost a quarter of a million swing voters, most of whom are Puerto Ricans or other Hispanics. – Orlando-area Hispanics’ votes will be vital to campaigners
August 10, 2008
Older Hispanics find health care lacking in Florida
August 1, 2008
Democracia USA was responsible for registering 35% of all the new Hispanic voters in 2006
July 30, 2008
A Florida woman who has been married to both the former head of the Ku Klux Klan and the creator of a notorious white supremacist Web site is working as a spokeswoman for a school that aims to lift underprivileged black and Hispanic children out of poverty.
Hispanics profiling victims by Border Patrol in West Palm, group says
July 28, 2008
U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez’s soon-to-be released first book, “A Sense Of Belonging” Describes Pursuit Of American Dream
July 23, 2008
Carlos and Jorge de Céspedes, founders of Pharmed, once one of the largest Hispanic owned businesses in the country, were charged Tuesday in federal court with healthcare-related wire fraud and income tax evasion.
July 22, 2008
Are Obama, McCain reaching Hispanic voters? – Tampa Bay area view
July 21, 2008
Jobs For Day Laborers Are Dwindling – Florida
July 10, 2008
ICE deports more than 5,800 from Florida in 2008 – (up from a year ago)
Factcheck.org: Errors en Español – A Spanish-language McCain radio ad gets nearly all its facts wrong.
June 26, 2008
Proposed license plate: ‘Hispanics discovered Florida’
June 24, 2008
Obama on wrong side of Elian Gonzalez saga
June 21, 2008
Asthma sufferers higher among Florida’s Hispanic population
June 17, 2008
With no established politician expected to challenge him, Carlos Alvarez is likely to win a second term as Miami-Dade mayor.
June 4, 2008
In South Florida, Eviction Spares Few – (almost everyone in this article from the New York Times is Latino)
May 29, 2008
In Miami, Spanish is becoming the primary language
May 19, 2008
Dressed to the Havana Nines – Havana Shirt Store
April 16, 2008
Copper theft knocks Entravision radio station off air in Central Florida
April 15, 2008
Senators look into treatment, wages of Florida tomato pickers
