Joaquín Villalobos, 57, was one of the top commanders of the FMLN, the coalition of guerrilla groups that in the 1980s waged a bloody civil war against the U.S.-supported government of El Salvador. He was also one of the negotiators and signatories of the peace accords that ended hostilities in 1992. Villalobos progressively distanced himself from the FMLN and in 1995 moved to Oxford, England. Since then, he has been working as an advisor in peace processes and transitions to democracy...
By the early 1970s, patronage politics had severely undermined confidence in Florida's judiciary. After he became governor in 1971, Reubin Askew issued an executive order to limit political influence on judicial selections and establish merit as the basis on which Florida filled vacancies at every level of the court system.
The decline of Cuba as a sports power is a reflection of the state of the island. But the nation remains competitive.
When the new Congress begins this week, a great many familiar faces will be missing. While the most notable absentees will be the new president- and vice president-elect, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, something tells me we will see plenty of them in coming months.
Even in hard times, this is the holiday season and a time when thoughts turn to home and family and dinner tables covered with food and gaily wrapped presents and bright lights.
The coming year will be a narrative of tension -- a series of difficult choices between the imperatives of the present and those of tomorrow. How we resolve this tension will be the measure of our vision and our leadership.
Some talk radio fans fear Democrats are ready to reimpose the Fairness Doctrine, which mandates ideological balance. BY GLENN GARVIN ggarvin@MiamiHerald.com
BAGHDAD -- As soon as I arrived here, I went to visit the neighborhood of Hay Salaam, my bellwether as to the city's condition and prospects.
A failure to help the Big Three automakers would destroy an institution that secured half a century's worth of gains in U.S. living standards.
It's been barely a month since Ray Sansom was sworn in as Florida's new speaker of the House, and the Destin Republican is already in trouble.
President-elect Barack Obama's choice of retired Army Gen. Eric K. Shinseki to head the Department of Veterans Affairs is the smartest and best appointment he's made so far.
From the voluminous, still-to-be-indexed FBI wiretaps of Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich: The governor: ``Molly, get me Satan on the phone.''
We surely all had the same question upon reading the story last week that real-estate developer Jorge Perez and sugar magnate Alfonso Fanjul have had talks to buy The Miami Herald. Given the sad economics of newspapers today, what would be their motive to own this one?
Fifty years after Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, the big question about the Cuban revolution is not whether it was justified, but whether it was worth it. From all available evidence, it wasn't.
From the day she landed on one of the Freedom Flights as an excited, frightened 7-year-old, Luisa Yanez has been fascinated by the massive U.S. airlift that brought her and 265,000 other Cubans to the United States four decades ago.
The bosses of the nation's three biggest automakers drove to Washington, D.C., this past week -- in their hybrid cars -- to plead once more for a government loan to see them through one of the worst periods in their history.
Electric cars could give a boost to automakers struggling to stay in business -- if only they'd come in numbers quick enough.
Every first lady does things her own way, and it's never quite what one would expect.
With millions of jobs at stake, Detroit's automakers want to convince Congress they can succeed -- with a bit of help
When state Sen. Dan Gelber picked up The Miami Herald one recent morning, he was surprised by what he saw on the front page. It wasn't the news itself that struck him. It was seeing a St. Petersburg Times story on the cover of his hometown newspaper.
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