Jesse SchecknerFebruary 26, 2024
3min0
The program is meant to increase teacher competency in Cuban and Cuban American studies education.
Tag: Cuban-Americans
Jesse SchecknerFebruary 26, 2024
Anne GeggisOctober 30, 2022
4min0
Effort underscores the influence of the state's fastest-growing group of voters.
Associated PressFebruary 16, 2021
9min620
Multi-cultural Hispanic community has numerous vaccine challenges.
Scott PowersOctober 29, 2020
6min592
The poll skewed toward Cuban voters.
Associated PressJune 18, 2017
5min171
President Donald Trump’s announcement that he’s “cancelling” his predecessor’s policy toward Cuba is a good deal less than meets the ear. Trump’s move, announced Friday in Miami, actually leaves in place most of the important elements of President Barack Obama’s moves to open relations with the island. And while his policy has the stated aim […]
Associated PressFebruary 17, 2017
8min230
The mayor is an immigrant, and more than half its residents are foreign born. But unlike many cities with large numbers of immigrants, there’s no sanctuary for people living illegally in Miami-Dade County, Florida. A recent decision by Mayor Carlos Gimenez requires local authorities to cooperate with federal officials to enforce immigration law. The decree […]
Guest AuthorDecember 6, 2016
10min225
Fidel Castro is dead. Thousands of Cubans, many of whom lived under Castro’s regime, gathered in the streets of Miami to celebrate his death. For them, his passing marked the symbolic end of a reign of terror, a nightmare that destroyed thousands of lives and forced a million Cubans to leave their homes and seek […]
Phil AmmannSeptember 18, 2016
7min243
Francis Suarez comes from a long line of civic and political leaders who have formed the Republican bedrock in south Florida’s Cuban community for a half century. Yet the 38-year-old Miami city commissioner hasn’t decided whether he will vote for his party’s presidential nominee. He’s not alone. Many Cuban-Americans are expressing solidarity with other Latin-Americans […]
Associated PressMarch 15, 2016
8min236
Florida voters are increasingly voicing a similar take on Republican front-runner Donald Trump: “Dice lo que piensa” – Spanish for “he speaks his mind.” Trump boasts that he can win the Hispanic vote in a general election and next week, he faces his first major test in the winner-take-all primary in Florida, a highly contentious […]
Associated PressFebruary 13, 2016
8min183
The United States and Cuba will sign an agreement next week to resume commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades, starting the clock on dozens of new flights operating daily by next fall, U.S. officials said Friday. U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is scheduled to fly to Havana on Tuesday to cement […]