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• Defiant Cuban dissident Guido Sigler arrives in Miami

  Defiant Cuban dissident Guido Sigler arrives in Miami

  Guido Sigler Amaya, one of 12 former political prisoners who opted to stay in Cuba after their release from prison earlier this year, arrived Tuesday at Miami International Airport determined to continue his opposition to the island nation’s regime and denouncing the abuses of the Castro brothers.

• A childhood filled with friends from Cuba made moving to Miami easy

  A childhood filled with friends from Cuba made moving to Miami easy

  Just like so many other Cuban-Americans, we came to Miami to escape the ravages of the Communist regime that had taken over our island-nation. We were lucky enough to come on a regularly scheduled Pan Am flight.

• Forget the year of arrival, Cubans are exiles

  Forget the year of arrival, Cubans are exiles

  Recently there has been much ado about the validity of Sen. Marco Rubio’s status as a son of exiles. The controversy mistakenly suggests that to be pro-freedom a Cuban must have left the island within a specific time frame. My family history, like Rubio’s, demonstrates otherwise.

• GOP steps right

  GOP steps right

  When elections are won by a few percentage points, both winners and losers can point to a million reasons. Today that’s what’s pushing the stalwarts of the Republican Party toward the right. They remember the election they narrowly won in 2000 because Ralph Nader, candidate for the Green Party, siphoned off Democratic votes in crucial states.

• Celebrating the 50-year-old ‘miracle’ of Cuba’s patron saint

  Celebrating the 50-year-old ‘miracle’ of Cuba’s patron saint

  Thousands are expected to attend Mass at the BankUnited Center to commemorate the arrival in Miami 50 years ago of a smuggled statue of La Caridad del Cobre — the famed patron saint of Cuba.