MiamiHerald.com: Fabiola Santiago

Fabiola Santiago: Many moms in this family, but Mami wears the crown

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:44 EDT

When I’m work-weary, I stand in the hall where my mother displays the diplomas and certificates she has earned during a lifetime, and I quickly regain perspective and gratitude.

Fabiola Santiago: City pols should keep nose out of art

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:21 EDT

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

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

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:31 EDT

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”?

Fabiola Santiago: On immigration, GOP back to ugly ways

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:45 EDT

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

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

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:52 EDT

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

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

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:12 EDT

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

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:35 EDT

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

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:20 EDT

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.

Fabiola Santiago: I am Cuban and American — y más

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:55 EDT

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

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:01 EDT

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.

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

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:43 EDT

What do you know?

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

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:27 EDT

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

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

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:52 EDT

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.

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

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:21 EST

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.

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

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:32 EST

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

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

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:15 EST

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.

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

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:19 EST

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.

Fabiola Santiago: Language wars should be left in past

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:44 EST

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.

Fabiola Santiago: Vatican must modernize beyond opening a Twitter account

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:58 EST

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.

Fabiola Santiago: In international spotlight, Miami begs definition

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:29 EST

“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.