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Fabiola Santiago: City pols should keep nose out of art

I like my politicians to stay as far away as possible from my art.

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Fabiola Santiago: For voters, Miami Dolphins stadium deal is a shot in the dark

You know that moment in parenting when a child asks for something particularly nerve-wracking and you escape making the decision with the cowardly, “Ask your father,” or, tables turned, “Ask your mother”? 1369148658

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Fabiola Santiago: On immigration, GOP back to ugly ways

Sounds like many Republicans in Congress no longer remember they lost the presidential election.

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Fabiola Santiago: Senate fails the nation, victims on gun control

It took Adam Lanza less than five minutes to kill 20 children and six educators using his mother’s high-powered military-style rifle.

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Fabiola Santiago: Daughter carries out father’s bold work in Cuba

A gray Miami morning framed the conversation with Rosa María Payá, blinding rain pouring into Biscayne Bay, long, tear-like droplets streaking the conference room windows.

Fabiola Santiago: Jay-Z ignores Cuba’s real heroes

It’s not difficult to clear up the confusion the “street cred” self-conscious Jay-Z expressed in the rap he quickly penned upon his return from Cuba, Open Letter.

Fabiola Santiago: Boy Scouts should live up to own values

All eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court — and they should be — as the nation’s highest court grapples with issues that address the constitutionality of same-sex marriage.

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Fabiola Santiago: I am Cuban and American — y más

Somos cubanos y punto.” We, those in exile and on the island, are all Cubans — period.

Fabiola Santiago: Dissidents choosing to act like free people

NEW YORK — The first time I “met” Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo — aka @OLPL — on that infinite and unpredictable public square that is the Internet, he was tweeting from Havana.

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Fabiola Santiago: Disruption of Yoani speech in New York carries echoes of Cuba

What do you know?

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Fabiola Santiago: In New York, as in Cuba, Yoani Sánchez speaks her mind

NEW YORK — I only knew Yoani Sánchez through her written words.

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Fabiola Santiago: Despite “reforms,” some Cubans aren’t free to travel

For all of the Cuban dissidents and bloggers who have taken to the skies to exercise a right that we, in the free world, take for granted — the right to travel freely — there are other Cubans who still cannot do so.

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Fabiola Santiago: Cuba’s bloggers are as sharp abroad as at home

The Cuban bloggers, bold chroniclers of totalitarian rule, are traveling in winter, an apt metaphor for the old order they’re challenging back home, and to a smaller but no less significant extent, for that of the traditional exile.

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Fabiola Santiago: In Spain, the truth starts to come out about Paya “accident”

At long last, Angel Carromero has broken his silence from the confines of his negotiated parole status in Spain.

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Fabiola Santiago: On anniversary of Trayvon’s shooting, questions about other violent deaths

People wore their hoodies Tuesday to remember Trayvon Martin on the first anniversary of his appalling shooting death at the hands of a neighborhood watchman, who pursued the black youth on the suspicion that he didn’t look like he belonged in his gated townhouse community.

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Fabiola Santiago: Yoani Sánchez, a courageous Cuban, breaks through to the outside world

For those of us who have followed her brave reports from Cuba during the past decade, it was moving and at the same time nerve-wracking to watch Yoani Sánchez waving goodbye as she cleared airport checkpoints rolling a small suitcase marked with the logo of her famous blog, Generation Y.

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Fabiola Santiago: Language wars should be left in past

The rich and beautiful Spanish language, so widely spoken in all of Miami-Dade County and well into Broward, hardly needs political protection in Doral.

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Fabiola Santiago: Vatican must modernize beyond opening a Twitter account

In 2005, when the conservative Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was chosen to become Pope Benedict XVI, my journalist daughter and I happened to be in Italy.

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Fabiola Santiago: In international spotlight, Miami begs definition

“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself....” – Joan Didion in The White Album, a portrait of 1970s California.