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EL DUENDE A CubaNews translation by Ana Portela. Edited by Walter Lippmann. What happened in the El Herald with the Oscar Corral Blog? From the El Nuevo Herald in Spanish we are sent an email correcting El Duende because it said, yesterday, that reporter Oscar Corral went back to work, to cover the presidential election campaign of the Republican candidate, Rudy Giuliani, when in fact he had gone back before last November with his news collaborations. But what El Duende said still stands. “What happened to the Oscar Corral Blog that his connection was erased from the Herald where 31 blogs appear of other collaborators in English and his does not appear? However if you browse in Internet to the site “Miami’s Cuban Connection” outside El Herald web site, you will find the Oscar Corral Blog. The question still stands. What happened in the Herald with the Oscar Corral Blog? By chance did they change him into goblin from beyond? ********************************************* Who gave the name “Cuban Mafia in Miami”? There are many who mistakenly believe that it was the Cuban government or Fidel Castro or the journalists of the Cuban Television Round Table who used the name “Cuban Mafia of Miami” to identify those who use Mafia style methods in the community of Cuban exiles living in the United States. El Duende was asked the question and now El Duende gives the answer after many hours of work checking old newspapers and magazines of the exiles looking for and digging up when the name Cuban Mafia of Miami was used for the first time. Actually the first to use the name “Cuban Mafia of Miami” was an official of Cuban origin of the Nixon Republican government called Manuel Giberga who occupied the post of Special Assistant to the United States Federal Bureau of Narcotics. At the time Giberga was the Cuban with the highest post in the US government. In an interview with Giberga by Replica in December 1973, the headline says: “A Cuban Mafia in Miami is in the making”. In his declaration to Replica, Giberga textually says: “Yes sir there is a sort of Cuban Mafia forming in Miami whose objective is to control the city in the style of the Chicago gangsters of the Al Capone era. And this has to be stopped no when there is still time because later it would be very difficult and could end in bloodshed”. So it is crystal clear and no one can make up phony stories of who gave this dishonorable name of Cuban Mafia of Miami who was in fact an official of Cuban origin of the Republican Party and personal friend of President Richard Nixon. What El Duende has saved in his archive tombs is so much that not even a goat can jump it. ************************************************ If you approve of the game it ends up in the Dog’s Flea Market. When the referendum of January 29 is opened regarding approval or refusal of gaming games in three places of Miami Dade. One is in the dog track on Flagler and Avenue 31. A decision will also be made on closing the popular market, popularly known as the “Dog’s Flea market” that operates every weekend in the large parking lot in a central location in Miami. The owners of Flagler Dog Track say they are willing to invest 100 million dollars in remodeling the stadium facility if gaming machines are set up but hide the fact with disinformation to the store owners operating there every weekend with low priced merchandise as an example of service to the community. No one wants to talk about it but if gambling is approved, good-bye Flea market and will have to exclaim Bambarambay! *************************************************** Data of a Census on Latinos in southern Florida There is much controversy on the real numbers of Latin Americans living in the south of the state of Florida, much more now that we are in presidential elections where Hispanic participation could be decisive in the election results. Without dealing with how many are going to vote in November because first they must be US citizens we will offer official statistics of the Population Census of 2006 regarding the Hispanic population in southern Florida. Get pencil and paper because this is important. Cubans, 880 thousand. The highest number. Puerto Ricans, 189 thousand. Colombians, 176 thousand. Mexicans 118 thousand. Nicaraguans 110 thousand. Dominicans 84 thousand. Venezuelans 70 thousand. Hondurans 68 thousand. Guatemalans 48 thousand. Argentinians 40 thousand and Uruguayans 10 thousand. These are statistics of the 2006 Census so the numbers should be higher in 2007 and the month of January 2008 estimating that Venezuelans show the highest growth index. If we add the numbers of Hispanics that are not of Cuban origin the figure is 913 thousand; in other words a little over the 880 thousand Cubans living in southern Florida. As for participation in the election, however, the most influential group continues to be the Cubans although it will not be long until the situation reverts in favor of Latin Americans of other nationalities. So, although the Cuban vote is an important factor in southern Florida, before elections we continue to hear US politicians exclaiming: “Castro no, Viva Cuba libre”, while they drink their Coca-Cola with rum. ************************************************* And now, good night friends, El Duende goes with his rooster singing in his cold tomb. Bambarambay.
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