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.
In her mind’s eye, Elsa Morejón looks from Miami at her beloved island and worries that what ails Cuba will not be cured solely with democracy. What ails Cuba, the humble Baptist nurse says with conviction, is a gaping hole in spirituality, a people who look to government and not God to save them because three generations have been brainwashed since their first day in preschool to think that way.
It was born in the gritty urban realism of exile, circa 1970s. El Super, a low-budget production by Cuban exiles, was the little film that could. It would break stereotypes by embracing them. It would make you laugh and cry simultaneously — tears of loss mixed with the pride of the survivor.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z trotted around their mothers in Havana for the couple’s fifth anniversary, posing with cute Cuban schoolchildren, dining at a famous paladar — the royal couple of hip-hop-pop creating the predictable paparazzi buzz and Cuban exile lament.
Forty questions in 80 days.
It was an evening class in Kendall that opened my weary mind after a day’s work to why societies are what they are and do what they do — the type of preparation every journalist should have to report on the who, what, when, where and how.
TAMPA — Tin Man didn’t morph into a cuddly teddy bear at his Republican National Coronation, but through family videos and friends’ testimonials a clear picture emerged of Mitt Romney the family man anchored by his faith, a giving man who has spent a lifetime helping neighbors in need, a businessman who created more jobs than he destroyed, a roll-up-your sleeves leader who cares deeply about the future of our country.
The state attorney is one of those countywide positions that’s high profile and in the crosshairs of the political winds, criticized for being either too tough on the young and the foolish or too soft on the bad guys. But never, ever, “has a blank space on a general election ballot operated to close a winner-take-all state attorney primary in the state of Florida.”
RSS|
My Yahoo|
Newsletters|
Mobile|
Alerts|
Twitter
Terms of Service| Privacy Policy| About our ads| Copyright| About The Miami Herald| About the McClatchy Company| Corrections| Contact Us| Advertise| Work for Us
Partners: El Nuevo Herald| Newspaper in Education| WLRN | Miami Herald News| CBS4 WFOR-TV| More
Copyright 2013 Miami Herald Media Co. All rights reserved
