Dying Cuban prisoner finds new life in Miami

Dying Cuban prisoner finds new life in Miami


After a debilitating condition had him paralyzed and on the brink of death, a former Cuban political prisoner took his first steps at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

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BY JUAN CARLOS CHAVEZ

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Nearly seven months after arriving in Miami in a wheelchair — wasted to the bone from malnutrition — former Cuban political prisoner Ariel Sigler Amaya has taken his first steps after a long stretch of paralysis.
Sigler, 47, walked for a few minutes at Jackson Memorial Hospital this week, a victory for someone who was on the brink of death.


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Cubans facing deportation now must report to ICE in Broward

Cubans facing deportation now must report to ICE in Broward


Cubans and others facing deportation must travel further to do regular check-ins with federal authorities.
BY ALFONSO CHARDY

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Like thousands of other Cuban exiles facing deportation, Mauricio Suarez has had to report his whereabouts regularly to federal immigration authorities.
An official would come to his Miami home once a month to personally verify that Suarez was living there. It was convenient for Suarez, 55, to comply with his supervised release requirement since he suffers from a liver disease that makes it difficult to travel long distances.
That convenience has ended.
As of last month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) changed the way thousands of Cubans facing deportation comply with immigration rules. ICE now requires Miami residents to travel across county lines to a Miramar office the check in.


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Bell: I didn’t cancel concert of musicians from Cuba

Bell: I didn’t cancel concert of musicians from Cuba


The cancellation of a Cuban music festival that was to take place at the Homestead-Miami Speedway has prompted the ACLU to ask the city of Homestead to investigate whether Miami-Dade County Commissioner Lynda Bell orchestrated the cancellation.
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BY CHRISTINA VEIGA

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The American Civil Liberties Union has asked Homestead Mayor Steve Bateman to investigate the cancellation of a music festival featuring performers from Cuba that was supposed to take place last weekend at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The request comes as the ACLU looks into whether former Homestead mayor and current Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell used her political office to push for the cancellation of the event, which lawyers say would be a stifling of free speech.
Bateman, who defeated Bell during the last election, did not return calls for comment.


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Tampa Airports Awaiting Cuba Approval

Despite the recent news for Cubans that they will be able to make flights out of Tampa and other airports being allowed to make flights in and out of Cuba legally there are still some technicalities that must be solved in Cuba before flights can happen. Once flights become active it will be a landmark period in American and Cuban relations showing progress made since the embargo.

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Minority Owned Business Are Majority in Dade County

Hispanics currently own 61% of all businesses in the Dade County and 22.4% of all Florida firms. This monopoly of business is due to large number of Hispanics namely Cubans that live in Miami and Dade County located in the South of Florida (also closer to Cuba). Furthermore, this kind of monopoly on business allows for greater representation of Cuban/Hispanic interest in local politics and organization like CANF and Cuba Nostalgia.

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Challenges to Stop Flights to Cuba from Florida

Florida Senator Marco Rubio and New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez have threatened the status of all newly allowed airports to service flights to Cuba. They have drafted an amendment to the recently passed legislation to allow flight to Cuba for Cubans/Americans who have certain religious delegations, academics, ect. In order to override this amendment people of these airports for instance Tampa must protest at US Capitol to ensure that they can have these services.

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Scholars fighting to squelch Spanglish

In South Florida there one might imagine that since Spanish is being spoken frequently (if not primarily) in households that the Spanish being spoken would be very good. This however is not the case!

Possible political candidates trying to express that they are running for office mistakenly use "corriendo" instead of "Se postulan".

Another instance of misuse in politics is the use of "registrar" instead of "inscribirse" to encourage registering to vote.

These are subtle mistakes that are the result of literal translation from English to Spanish.

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Originally posted by: Tampa Bay Online
Article by: Jordan Rodriguez