MiamiHerald.com: Daniel Shoer Roth

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

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:59 EDT

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.

Piece of exile dies with bookstore

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:40 EDT

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.

Daniel Shoer Roth: Miami’s push to criminalize homelessness

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:48 EDT

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.

The dark side of Parent Trigger

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:46 EDT

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.

Daniel Shoer Roth: Mother Teresa’s Miami soup kitchen harassed by the powerful

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:17 EDT

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.”