MiamiHerald.com: Myriam Marquez

Myriam Marquez: Hope for Cuba one prayer at a time

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:48 EDT

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.

‘El Super’ explains Cuban exiles’ bittersweet adventure

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:38 EDT

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.

Myriam Marquez: Beyoncé and Jay-Z in Havana another calibrated Cuba plot

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:55 EDT

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.

Myriam Marquez: Yoani Sánchez faces as many questions as explanations from exiles

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:49 EDT

Forty questions in 80 days.

Juan Clark opened my eyes to the ‘why’

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:55 EST

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.

Romney’s guilt-free pass to Independents

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:33 EDT

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.

Write-in ploy cheats the voters

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:42 EDT

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.”