Editorial Page Editor Myriam Marquez has worked at The Miami Herald since October 2005. As an Assistant City Editor she coordinated coverage of South Florida's Latin American and Caribbean communities. She was tapped Deputy Metro Editor in December 2007, served as Metro columnist in 2008 and was selected to oversee the opinion pages in print and online starting in June 2009. She has overseen award-winning projects, including coverage of torture suspects at Krome and Gitmo, higher education and the evolving face of Miami's Cuban exile community.
Myriam knows South Florida -- she is a graduate of Miami Senior High and Miami-Dade Community College. Born in Havana, Myriam grew up bilingual and bilcultural. She is married and has two sons.
During her 18 years at the Orlando Sentinel, Myriam received numerous awards as a columnist and editorial board member. She also served as the Sentinel's Enterprise Editor. She's a graduate of the University of Maryland, with bachelor's in journalism and minor in political science.
Two wise men who stood up to evil brought their seedlings of hope and peace and planted them firmly on Miami soil. Stand your ground, don't give up, keep pushing for what's right, keep talking -- and listening, but only when there is mutual respect.
South Florida has the sun and surf, the dazzling nightlife, the cruise ships and national sports teams. It's an international tourist mecca during the winter months, and trade through our airports and seaports pumps billions of dollars into our economy.
As goes Massachusetts, so goes Florida?
Former House Speaker Marco Rubio is salivating at Scott Brown's U.S. Senate victory in Massachusetts, as he should. Rubio is young and attractive and a powerful speaker, even if you disagree with him as he stumps to be the next GOP senator from Florida. Rubio hasn't posed in the buff for Cosmopolitan, which didn't seem to hurt Brown the hottie.If anyone still questions labor unions' influence on South Florida politicians, last week's vote by the Broward School Board and Miami's special election results should diminish any doubt.
Emilio Estefan rat-tat-tats his words in English and Spanish in that fast-talking Miami way -- even though he's from Santiago, where Cubans take their time when they speak.
It's that time of year, girls and boys. Santa's getting ready to deliver his gifts to South Florida's movers and shakers -- if he can recover his list from his flooded shop.
Fifty and 60. Not just numbers. They capture the journey of 50 years in a crumbling island and a sea of change in perspective among 60 prestigious people to the north who opened their eyes and told the truth, exposing Cuba's dirty little secret.
Willy Chirino, Pedro Pan kid turned Cuban-American salsero, has an offer for Raúl. Yeah, that Raúl, Fidel Castro's little brother now running that prison paradise across the Florida Straits.
Talk about wiping the slate clean.
Even before the celebratory paella at Miami City Hall turns cold, Police Chief John Timoney is out the door.Carlos Planas did all the right things since he arrived from Cuba at age 12 in 1960.
He embraced a new language and country, graduated from Miami-Edison Senior High. Then went on to study marketing and finance, graduating with an MBA from the University of Miami.
Forty years after Operation Pedro Pan ended, I was at Havana's Jose Martí International Airport after spending almost a month reporting from the communist island in 2002.
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