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Daniel Shoer Roth
Daniel Shoer Roth is a columnist at El Nuevo Herald, where he has worked since 1999. He writes about the lives and issues that affect South Floridians but don't get enough public attention. View From El Nuevo Herald is his weekly column in The Miami Herald. Shoer Roth was born in Caracas, Venezuela, the grandson of Holocaust survivors. He has won several awards from the National Association of Hispanic Journalist, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the National Association of Hispanic Publications. Last year, he published a bilingual book Punto de Partida: Stories of Truth and Hope with the Human Services Coalition, aiming to inspire readers to take action to improve their communities.

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Old-time politics outdated in Miami

Their claws showing as they go into the final straightaway of the campaign, Miami's two mayoral candidates have pulled the last card out of their sleeve -- their Cuban patriotism.

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Hate crime laws need to protect gays

Gay people are society's most rejected minority. The most convincing proof is that many parents are capable of abhorring and abusing their gay child simply because that child was born that way.
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Daughter followed a dangerous path

It's every parent's nightmare: a daughter goes out at night to have fun with an undesirable person and doesn't return.
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Horse killings wrong in so many ways

Ivonne Rodríguez lived her childhood surrounded by animals. She loved them, especially horses, and dreamed of having a pony.
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A dream is fulfilled: I'm an American

Columnist Daniel Shoer-Roth, a native of Venezuela, became a U.S. citizen last week. Here are his thoughts.
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Hispanic immigrants kept at arm's length from healthcare

In Hialeah, Caridad Morales faces the U.S. healthcare crisis with onions and garlic.
Besides carefully using home recipes to stay healthy, she takes special precautions when driving and walking, making sure she doesn't fall, and even tries not to touch anything because she is prone to allergies.
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Immigrant's American dream gets closer to reality

Idreamed about Thomas Jefferson last week.
I promised him I would be loyal to the United States. The stars and stripes was hanging on my wall. He asked me: What does the judicial branch of government do? Why did the colonists fight the British? When was the Constitution written?
`Meditate and discover wonders around us'

In synagogues worldwide Jews today beseech God for grace and mercy. It is the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, the opening of the book of life, which closes on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
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FPL not being responsive to public

Armando Olivera, Florida Power & Light president, generally commutes by helicopter from Miami to company headquarters in Juno Beach. When he goes to Tallahassee, he travels on a corporate jet the company plans to replace by a new one paid by all of us customers to this monopoly.
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Maury Hernandez's desire to protect should not be wasted

It is painful and frustrating, but Maury Hernández's longing to go back to work as a Broward County deputy seems impossible to achieve.
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Kids' lives less colorful without art programs

The pail was full of shaving cream sprayed with watercolors.
Jade Lumbi, 5, dipped a sheet of white cardboard into it. Then an aide at the arts workshop of the Miami Children's Museum wiped the lather off with a spatula.