MiamiHerald.com: Fabiola Santiago

Mariela Castro’s real agenda: Keep family in power

Fri, 25 May 2012 18:50 EDT

Mariela Castro wasn’t able to leave the safe cocoon of the USA this week without revealing her true agenda.

A night at the opera of baseball

Tue, 22 May 2012 21:12 EDT

After our father died, my brother and I made a pact to bridge what one might call the intellectual distance between us, a space that expanded after our teenaged complicity waned and we made our lives in the separate city corners of the geek and the jock.

For top Miami student, crucial words from the president

Fri, 11 May 2012 23:07 EDT

Javier Aranzales, 17, has earned his optimism.

Author’s border-town stories transcend borders

Tue, 08 May 2012 18:09 EDT

She speaks at school auditoriums and libraries packed with children, sometimes dressed up in a bright orange quinceañera dress, gloves and a tiara, to act out her most famous character.

Abuse bill needs to protect immigrants

Mon, 07 May 2012 15:15 EDT

Sandy Adams was a high school dropout married at 18 to a man she describes as a “violent alcoholic,” but she later mustered the courage to grab her 3-year-old daughter and flee from her Jacksonville home.

In freedom, defecting actors have humble dreams

Tue, 01 May 2012 19:36 EDT

When I meet them Tuesday afternoon, the young couple is sitting in front of the brightly lit make-up mirrors at the studios of América TeVé in Hialeah Gardens.

A tweeting twit could trash Miami trial

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:33 EDT

Billy Corhen, the 33-year-old Miami filmmaker who tweeted mostly silly musings from his cell phone during his jury service, tells me right away what he thinks of my “what were you thinking?” phone call to him.

Trayvon’s image was irrelevant in shooting

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:45 EDT

Nearly two months after killing Trayvon Martin with a gunshot to the chest, George Zimmerman apologized to his parents.

Miami’s Cuban sandwich still the best

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:56 EDT

If we’re going to have a good old-fashioned culinary smackdown with our friends in Tampa, let’s cover all the bases in the name of enlightenment.

Román embodied healing, hope and exile

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:10 EDT

To his faithful followers, he was “ el padre Román,” a dedicated spiritual counselor like no other.

Ozzie Guillen flap brings out worst in everybody

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:46 EDT

I wanted to call in sick today.

Pope’s visit to Cuba leaves little reason for hope

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:29 EDT

Barely a week after the pope left Cuba, the grand Oasis of the Seas, on a cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Mexico, rescues on the high seas 19 men and four women fleeing from the island in a small boat.

For top law school grad, a dream dashed

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:33 EDT

Once again, an institution in Florida goes out of its way to punish a meritorious immigrant for the peccadillo of parents who overstayed a tourist visa to give their son an opportunity at being an American.

Heartache and hope made Dad a true exile

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:41 EDT

My father was a true exile.

Unarmed teen’s killing in Sanford deserves answers

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:32 EDT

Trayvon Martin’s family deserves answers, and so does a community rightfully outraged in the aftermath of his killing.

Parking fairy fails fans at Miami Marlins stadium

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:44 EST

Ah, the parking fairy!

Cuban cardinal’s prayers ignore real victims

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:14 EST

Sometimes the echo of a prayer travels far, much too far.

Fanaticism trumps justice in student deportation case

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:41 EST

No justice, none at all, was delivered this week when a federal immigration judge denied 18-year-old Daniela Pelaez, the valedictorian at North Miami Senior High School, her application for U.S. residency and put her on a deportation track.

At these films, please keep your mouth shut

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:08 EST

My apologies to Don McLean for borrowing his famous line, but I remember the day the venerable Miami Film Festival died.

What was Steinberg thinking?

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:03 EST

Maybe, in between House committee meetings, he watched Jersey Shore.