GOP must find the road to moderation
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Thursday, May 7, 2009
The Republican Party’s hard right can’t reconcile that most God-fearing Americans are socially moderate. The GOP has strayed from an individual-rights and economic opportunity agenda to a party controlled by uncompromising zealots.
Cuba is a far cry from being a workers’ paradise
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Alvarez Ramos knows firsthand that Cuban workers clamoring for labor rights wind up in jail. In 2003, he was among the 75 independent union activists, journalists, librarians and human rights activists accused of being U.S. “mercenaries” and imprisoned.
After Bush’s tough love, it’s time to give Obama’s Cuba policy a try
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Friday, April 17, 2009
President Obama simply delivered on his promise at a CANF event last year: more family travel, which the Bush administration limited in 2004 to once every three years. As for the U.S. embargo, it stays.
Politics get in way of noble call to service
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Thursday, April 2, 2009
Many young people are counting on the Obama administration, which wants to expand programs like AmeriCorps to help young people finance their college educations and work in their communities during this catatonic economy. But wouldn’t you know? The legislation that emerged from the Senate turns the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, or GIVE, into political hatchet work.
Brave souls from Cuba plan to meet
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Monday, March 30, 2009
Latin American and European heads of state go to Havana and fawn over the Castros, never bothering to speak to one dissident, one opposition group, one honest broker for basic human rights. It is this international see-no-evil Orwellian reality that Cuba’s former political prisoners hope to change. At least 1,000 ex-prisoners will get together April 3-5 in Hialeah and Miami—and connect with Cuban ex-prisoners and current prisoners’ families by phone and online—during the First Congress of Cuban Political Prisoners.
Rationale for Cuba embargo strong as ever
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Friday, March 20, 2009
Barack Obama, whose administration is being pressured to make a big splash on Cuba at an coming conference in Trinidad and Tobago, should not be swayed to lift the embargo or give a green light to American tourists to party like it’s 1959 in Havana.
Don’t blame working poor for greed shown by lenders
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Monday, March 2, 2009
Don’t blame the working poor and middle-class folks who bought into the American Dream that if you work hard, you can one day own your little castle. Don’t play class warfare after a decade of corporate welfare.
Kids risk health to fight mom’s deportation
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009
Maricela Vallejo Soza, 32, didn’t steal, hurt or kill anyone, but she did break U.S. immigration law. She’s now back in Managua, unable to care for Cecia, a bright young lady who’s in an international baccalaureate program at her middle school, and the rambunctious Ronald, whose playful nature has turned more melancholy.
Cuba’s truth lies in the pain of the exiled
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009
Cuba’s truth is ugly and wrenching in its control of every aspect of people’s lives.
Medicare crooks like Cuba why?
By MIRIAM MARQUEZ - Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009
What would make Jorge Ramirez, a former owner of a Miami clinic that treated blood disorders and was charged with defrauding Medicare of—gulp—$42.2 million, think he could get back here after taking off for Cuba?
Deportations slide under Obama’s radar
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009
Advocates for Haitian immigrants say there has been an uptick since Obama’s inauguration to deport Haitians without criminal records, many of them married to U.S. citizens or who have American-born children. The numbers provided by immigration officials Monday (41 Haitians deported since December) do not show an uptick. Just business as usual.
Question mark about Obama: Can he deliver?
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009
The biggest fear among senior citizens—at least, the one expressed most by several at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Miami—is whether President Barack Obama’s fix will amount to runaway inflation and even fewer jobs and retirement earnings should the federal government spend a trillion dollars to stimulate the economy.
Even fading, Fidel captures headlines
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Monday, Jan. 19, 2009
Fidel Castro may be hanging on (on ice?) for Barack Obama’s inauguration Tuesday, hoping to compete for prominent play in newscasts and newspapers everywhere.
Just say ‘no’ philosophy is failing the GOP
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009
Why has Florida's party of paella, conch fritters and barbecue—the party of can-do—become the party of stale white bread and “just say no"?
Senseless, deadly U.S. policy on Haitians persists
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ - Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008
U.S. immigration officials decided recently that it would be just dandy to deport Haitians while recovery efforts on their part of Hispaniola proceed in spurts and stops, as children die of malnutrition and mudslides continue to impede reconstruction.
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