VIEW FROM EL NUEVO HERALD

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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Daniel Shoer Roth: Hialeah ‘boletera’ a political scapegoat in ballot scandal

Since the eruption of the electoral fraud volcano last summer, Hialeah ballot broker Deisy Pentón de Cabrera has been depicted by the authorities and the media as Snow White’s Queen Grimhilde transformed into a witch. Her basket hides not only a poisoned apple, but a complete harvest that, with the scandal’s shooting lava, has become rotten applesauce.

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A quince party in Cuba: a real fairytale to be recalled at this weekend’s Cuba Nostalgia

Like many teenage girls in Cuba, Lydia Hortensia de Castroverde yearned to be a quinceañera — to one day dress like a princess, enter a banquet hall full of family and friends on her father’s arm to dance a waltz, then blow out the candles on a spectacular cake. In effect, flying out as a butterfly from a cocoon. A beautiful human spring.
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Piece of exile dies with bookstore

The topics discussed at its annual book club gatherings varied from how Cuba won its independence from Spain to its early days as a republic to how the island once called “the Pearl of the Caribbean” was crushed by a Communist revolution.
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Daniel Shoer Roth: Miami’s push to criminalize homelessness

City of Miami officials failed to accomplish their iniquitous purpose of banning Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s nuns from feeding the poorest of the poor outside their Overtown convent. The community united in a cry of outrage so beautiful that it surely resounded in the heavenly kingdom and prompted a lump in the throat of our politicians and public servants.
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The dark side of Parent Trigger

The crusade to privatize public education continues gaining ground in the Florida Legislature, where the controversial bill to have a traditional neighborhood school transformed into a charter school, among other options, sails at full speed under the premise of empowering parents to turn around a school that’s failing their children.
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Daniel Shoer Roth: Mother Teresa’s Miami soup kitchen harassed by the powerful

Thirty-three years ago, Mother Teresa of Calcutta came to Miami to put her merciful motto of love into action: “To serve the poorest of the poor.”

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