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Winnipeg Free Press
6 days ago
- Business
- Winnipeg Free Press
Has the son of Helms-Burton just been conceived?
Opinion The Canada-U.S.-Cuba nexus has once again raised its ugly head. Only this time it comes at a particularly delicate time for Prime Minister Mark Carney, and leaves him with some very difficult decisions to make. Since Canada capitulated to U.S. pressure to deep-six the digital services tax, it's only fair that Washington should terminate its new Cuba policy of embracing third country economic sanctions. Now, what do you think the chances of that are? Reportedly, the new Cuba regulations are part of a national security memorandum signed by U.S. President Donald Trump in late June. According to the White House directive, the executive branch seeks to end 'economic practices that disproportionately benefit the Cuban government or its military, intelligence, or security agencies or personnel at the expense of the Cuban people.' The Miami Herald is also claiming that U.S. sanctions will apply to any company (foreign or otherwise) providing 'direct or indirect support to companies directly or indirectly owned by the Cuban military.' U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, center, appear to be putting a new squeeze on countries — like Canada — doing business with Cuba. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, left, looks on during a cabinet meeting at the White House, July 8. These so-called 'secondary sanctions' will punish foreign (read Canadian) companies from doing business with the Cuban government. More specifically, it prohibits Canadian companies from engaging in commercial activities with Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces and its corporate affiliates GAESA (a conglomerate of companies) and Gaviota (a tourism company). But if they do so, and thus violate the new Trump measures, those businesses will then be subject to stiff financial penalties. The chief objective is to disincentivize foreign investment in Cuba, to discourage tourism travel to the island, to cut off badly needed dollars to Havana (by going after tourism receipts) and to put foreign governments with ties to Cuba on notice. A policy such as this comes from the same U.S. place that spawned the damaging Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 and the anti-Cuba Helms-Burton Act of 1996. There is no doubt that the principal driver of this tougher Cuba policy is the anti-Cuba hawk and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. It's a given that he will utilize every single waking moment trying to squeeze the life out of the island's population. This latest policy iteration is just another manifestation of America's long-standing Cuban economic strangulation strategy. It doesn't hurt that Trump undoubtedly believes that tightening the screws on Cuba plays well politically to the Cuban-American crowd in south Florida. And that is particularly important at this moment in time as boatloads of Haitians, Venezuelans ad Nicaraguans — many facing deportation and an extraordinarily difficult future — are fighting mad at Republican members of Congress and rapidly jumping off the Trump electoral ship. As far as I can tell, though, the new 'National Security Presidential Memorandum 5' regulatory changes to strengthen U.S. Cuba policy will negatively impact Canadian travel companies, airlines and hotels (typically joint ventures with the Cuban government). It will also target Toronto-based Sherritt International Corp. — Canada's largest foreign investor on the island — which has substantial interests in nickel mining, energy production and tourism. Like the Helms-Burton Law, the Trump administration's new 'maximum pressure' campaign will further undermine already strained diplomatic relations with Canada and countries of the European Union. National governments will then have little choice, as they did in the mid-1990s, but to respond with reciprocal punitive measures of their own and to bring this matter before the World Trade Organization. But how will Ottawa's response to Trump's extraterritorial application of U.S. regulations to Canada — or the 'externalizing' of the U.S. blockade of Cuba, if you will — impact the ongoing bilateral trade and security negotiations with Washington? More to the point: Can Carney seriously talk about 'elbows up' and all that while Canada effectively sits on its fanny and does nothing in the face of Trump's effrontery to Canadian sovereignty? Weekday Evenings Today's must-read stories and a roundup of the day's headlines, delivered every evening. I am worried that Carney's non-action in deference to Trump will undermine not only Canada's constructive and independent relationship with Cuba, but also our relations with the wider region. If Carney balks, he will wrongly differentiate himself from other Canadian prime ministers who stood up to the Americans on matters involving Cuba. At any rate, I'm certain that someone in official Washington is thinking that this is the perfect policy prescription given Cuba's current dire economic and financial situation. They've no doubt convinced themselves that these new sanctions will push struggling Cubans over the edge and thus precipitate the gradual demise of the Cuban government. Indeed, the U.S. presidential memorandum doesn't even bother to hide the fact that this 'maximum pressure' strategy will remain in place 'until a transition government in Cuba' takes power. There is no question that these tougher measures will make everyday life more miserable for the Cuban people. But they could also prove to be counterproductive: by pushing Cubans to seek greener pastures in the U.S., by galvanizing public support around the Cuban government and by isolating the U.S. from its Western allies and friends. Anyway, I doubt that Trump really cares. Peter McKenna is professor of political science at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown.
New York Post
7 days ago
- New York Post
Roy Black, famed defense attorney for Rush Limbaugh and Jeffrey Epstein, dies after illustrious career
Roy Black, a prominent Miami defense lawyer whose clients included Jeffrey Epstein and William Kennedy Smith has died at the age of 80, his law partner said Tuesday. The Miami Herald reported that Black, a father of two, died on Monday at his home in Coral Gables. Advertisement 'For more than 30 years, Roy was my teacher, mentor and friend,' said his law partner, Howard Srebnick, in an email to The Associated Press. 'The loss(es) I feel personally and professionally are immeasurable.' Black represented, and won, a slew of high-profile clients, including Justin Bieber and race car driver Helio Castroneves. In Miami, Black was viewed in legal circles as the GOAT, the greatest of all time, said fellow defense attorney David O. Markus, who compared his late colleague to NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan. 'He worked harder than any lawyer I know. And he outlawyered every prosecutor who he ever went up against. I will miss him. His impact on criminal defense is beyond measure,' Markus said in an email to the news outlet. Advertisement 3 Roy Black died on Monday at his home in Coral Gables. AP Smith's 1991 trial drew national attention and was televised after he was charged with assaulting a woman in Palm Beach after a night of drinking. He was acquitted of the charges against him. Smith, now a physician involved in an organization dedicated to banning land mines, is the nephew of former president John F. Kennedy, former Attorney General and US Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and former Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. In the Bieber case, the pop star was accused of driving a Lamborghini under the influence and drag racing. Advertisement He later pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor careless driving and resisting arrest. 3 Roy Black's clients included Jeffrey Epstein and Justin Bieber. DOJ 3 Black represented deceased conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh. AP Castroneves, a winner of the Indianapolis 500, was acquitted of charges that he tried to evade more than $2 million in taxes. Advertisement Other clients Black represented included deceased conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh; Amid Khoury, who was found not guilty of bribing a Georgetown University tennis coach to get his daughter admitted to the school and Miami police officer William Lozano, who was acquitted in the shooting death of Black motorcyclist Clement Lloyd. The acquittal later sparked riots in Miami in 1989. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Miami Herald
22-07-2025
- Miami Herald
Epstein files: Is it about justice for victims, or just politics
Editor's note: Welcome to Double Take, a regular conversation from opinion writers Melinda Henneberger and David Mastio tackling news with differing perspectives. MELINDA: What infuriates me about Jeffrey Epstein has little to do with Donald Trump, MAGA or politics of any kind. The tragedy of Epstein and his fancy friends, whoever they were, is what they did to those girls, period. That is why it chaps me when people say oh, they're so bored with this whole thing. You know who is not bored, because their lives were stolen before they really even got started? His victims, some of whom were as young as 14. We would know nothing about any of this without our brave McClatchy reporting colleague Julie K. Brown of The Miami Herald. And what she just said on a New York Times podcast with Ross Douthat that I highly recommend is that 'these girls' lives were essentially ruined, even if they had only gone to his house one time.' So no, the ennui is not killing me the way it is some of you who keep telling us how over it you all are even as you also keep writing about it as if it were some joke. (Hey, let's do Gérard Depardieu next!) It is not, as you wrote in comparing it to a 'Seinfeld' episode, 'a scandal about nothing.' Now you can tell me how you didn't mean it that way. DAVID: I'll give you two examples of what I mean by nothing. First there is The Sunday New York Times magazine story with the headline 'An accuser's story.' First the accuser was in her 20s at the time of the wrongdoing she complained of, not 14. Until the time the last man dies, men are going to chase young women in their 20s. It is not a crime and we shouldn't make it one. This isn't even up to the standards of having oral sex with your intern in the Oval Office bathroom. MELINDA: This is not about older men 'chasing' younger women. The story you reference begins this way: 'It was the summer of 1996 when Maria Farmer went to law enforcement to complain about Jeffrey Epstein. At the time, she said, she had been sexually assaulted by Mr. Epstein and his longtime partner, Ghislaine Maxwell. Ms. Farmer, then in her mid-20s, had also learned about a troubling encounter that her younger sister — then a teenager — had endured at Mr. Epstein's ranch in New Mexico. And she described facing threats from Mr. Epstein.' These events, as described, absolutely are crimes. And why are you euphemizing what we know happened? This is a man who, according to Brown, molested hundreds of girls. DAVID: That same accuser's story includes this 'to be sure' paragraph about what is in the Epstein files: 'The story of Ms. Farmer's efforts to call law enforcement attention to Mr. Epstein and his circle shows how the case files could contain material that is embarrassing or politically problematic to Mr. Trump, even if it is largely extraneous to Mr. Epstein's crimes and was never fully investigated or corroborated.' That seems to me to be a long-winded way of saying there is going to be a lot of nothing in the Epstein files. MELINDA: You glean from this that there is nothing worth knowing in the files? Again, Brown is the expert, and here's what she wrote in The Miami Herald months ago: 'Sources also said that the files are voluminous. There are 22 files containing over 500 pages in the FBI vault, a portal on the FBI's website accessible to the public. The bulk of those 11,000-plus pages are heavily redacted, and Justice Department prosecutors have fought their release for years. … One critical source of evidence against Epstein was in the discovery for a Florida civil case brought by Epstein's victims against the FBI in 2008. That case spanned a decade and included tens of thousands of pages of material that sheds light on how federal prosecutors mishandled that early case. Not all the FBI documents connected to that case — or the federal criminal case — in Florida have been made public.' DAVID: When Trump goes down in flames, it will not be because of allegations that may or may not be true and haven't been investigated. If the Wall Street Journal story from last week at the center of Trump's new lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch is an example of the kind of revelations about Trump that we can expect, then, yeah, I stand by my description of it as nothing. A naughty picture? Seriously? So what else did Julie Brown have to say to Ross Douthat? MELINDA: You are looking at this primarily as a story about Trump, but I am not. And no one should ever go down in flames — especially hard on straw men, I think — based on uninvestigated allegations. What I say is, finish the investigation and find out who else was responsible. Douthat asked Brown, 'Do you think it was just Epstein?' 'No, it wasn't,' she said. 'Because over the years a lot of women have come forward. … These women are scared to death.' Another question from Douthat: 'So, from your perspective, then, it is likely that there are some set of men in the world who move through Epstein's mansion — Epstein's island and so on — who are guilty of essentially having girls trafficked to them and in part, having sex with minors.' Here's her answer: 'That's correct.' DAVID: That sure would be a scandal, but it would be Epstein's scandal and he's dead. Anything going forward from here is going to have to be about Trump. And to get excited about what is supposedly in there, you have to believe that the Obama administration didn't leak it to save Hillary Clinton in 2016 and the Biden administration didn't release it in 2024 to save Kamala Harris. Not likely in my view. MELINDA: Why does it have to be about Trump? Stop looking at this as a political story for a minute and you might see what I see. Which is a man who damaged who knows how many lives. He died in jail because the judge denied bond, and the judge denied bond because Epstein's victims feared for their safety. Brown says they are still afraid now, and why would that be, if their only abuser is dead? I do not know the answer, but I want to. How about 'getting excited' — argh — about what more can be known just to see justice done? Run it all down and then we'll be done. No, I do not think the Democratic Party is run by pedophiles. And no, I never understood why one wing of MAGA was ever counting on someone who had a long friendship with Epstein and many allegations of sexual misconduct going back decades to be the man who was going to break up the party. But that doesn't mean Trump is implicated, either. I just want justice for those girls, even if the one you read about was in her 20s. Of course this story reminds me of one I covered for years, about former Kansas City, Kansas, detective Roger Golubski, who like Epstein was charged by the feds with sex trafficking. Golubski, too, acted with impunity for decades and then, on the morning he was supposed to show up for the first day of jury selection in his first federal trial, killed himself instead. No way did he act alone, either. I thought of him as a down-market Epstein a long time before the two of them chose the same way out. Two predators, two cowards, zero 'glee' from me. DAVID: Justice is a rare and delicate thing among us tragically flawed humans. It is nice when we can get it, but expecting it in this life is the road to disappointment. The main culprit died in jail. His main helper is in jail, too. That's pretty good for our flawed system. Often when we pursue perfect justice, what we get is worse. I don't think releasing a bunch of unvetted allegations gets us closer to justice especially if we protect the identities of those making the allegations as many of the efforts to release the Epstein files propose. Being able to face your accuser is among the things we've learned is necessary to get justice. It is time to let God judge Epstein as he will all those who preyed on young women with him. We need to let it go.
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
The Sickening Living Conditions at 'Alligator Alcatraz'
Behemoth bugs, no access to running water, and withheld legal rights are just some of the inhumane conditions detailed in the first reports from detainees at Alligator Alcatraz, the Trump administration's premier wetland-themed concentration camp. The Miami Herald spoke with the wives of three men detained at Alligator Alcatraz who said that their husbands had not been given access to showers. Two of the women said that the toilets had no water in them. Despite the Florida government's insistence that the accounts of alleged conditions are false, many of the detainees' details were the same. Eveling Ortiz, whose boyfriend, Vladimir Miranda, was detained by ICE, also told NBC Miami the same. 'They don't have water, they can't use the bathroom properly. They're not taking a bath,' she said. Leamsy Isquierdo, a Cuban reggaeton artist who was arrested on assault charges, told CBS News that he had been unable to shower since arriving Friday. 'There's no water to take a bath, it's been four days since I've taken a bath,' Isquierdo said. All three wives told the Herald that their husbands reported behemoth bugs had gotten into the tents, including a grasshopper the size of a hand, and Isquierdo said that detainees were being terrorized by mosquitoes 'as big as elephants.' Ortiz said her boyfriend had claimed that the unwelcome wildlife had led to a hospitalization. 'They took somebody to the hospital because there is a lot of mosquitoes, because he was getting swollen on his face, and they didn't know what was going on,' she said. On Monday, one detainee was taken to the hospital, though it's unclear why. Stephanie Hartman, a spokeswoman for Florida's Division of Emergency Management, the state agency overseeing operations at the facility, gave a statement dismissing the allegations of poor conditions. 'Bugs and environmental factors are minimized in the facility, restraints are only utilized during transport outside of the detention centers, and visitation arrangements can be made upon request. All plumbing systems are working and operational,' Hartman said. But the wildlife and lack of water are just one part of the problem. Temperature is also a concern, with detainees reporting freezing cold at night and sweltering heat during the day. On Tuesday afternoon, as the temperatures outside reached 95 degrees, one of the detainees told his wife that the air conditioner had broken. Another told his wife that 'the air is hot,' sounding out of breath. Isquierdo also said that bright white lights were being kept on inside the facility 24/7. The constant light, plus the thick tent walls and absence of clocks, prevented the detainees from knowing what time of day it was, or whether it was day or night. 'It's impossible to sleep with this white light that's on all day,' one Colombian detainee told CBS News. 'I'm on the edge of losing my mind. I've gone three days without taking my medicine.' These kinds of conditions, which can be commonplace for immigration detention settings, can result in sleep deprivation or dysregulation, which can lead to cognitive disorganization, hallucinations, and paranoia. Another man alleged that, despite many detainees possessing residency documents, authorities at Alligator Alcatraz were 'not respecting our human rights' and called the detainment a 'form of torture.' 'We're human beings; we're not dogs. We're like rats in an experiment,' he told CBS News. 'They took the Bible I had, and they said here there is no right to religion. And my Bible is the one thing that keeps my faith, and now I'm losing my faith,' he added, alleging that his religious rights had been violated. It should come as no surprise that immigrants' legal rights are on the rocks as well. Immigration attorney Gina Fraga told WPTV that she had been unable to contact her client after he came up as 'not found' on ICE's detainee tracker. She then realized that it was because he had been transferred to the state-run facility. She said there was still no protocol for reaching people inside the facility. Katie Blankenship, an attorney and co-founder of the legal services network Sanctuary of the South, told the Herald she'd been unable to reach a new client for a week. 'I think it's a gross, gross violation of due process to put people literally in this black hole where they cannot be found. They cannot speak with counsel, they cannot contact immigration court. They are just, for all intents and purposes, disappeared,' she said. Solve the daily Crossword
Miami Herald
17-07-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Most Miamians live paycheck to paycheck. This researcher has some ideas to help
For all the change constantly happening in and around the Magic City, many Miamians feel stuck. More than half of Miami-Dade's population lives paycheck to paycheck. They're spinning their wheels, moving from one day to the next, hoping they avoid the health emergency, job loss, car accident or hurricane that would push them over the financial cliff. They're surviving, but not thriving. Milestones like homeownership that once felt attainable are out of reach. Now, it's a matter of making rent. That dynamic is playing out across the country. It's amplified in South Florida. Post-pandemic, the region saw a flood of outside money drive up local income inequality and, with it, prices — especially for housing. Meanwhile, locals' paychecks haven't kept pace. They're struggling to save, struggling to invest — in stocks or businesses or themselves — and struggling to get ahead. Heather Cameron is the Michael B. Kaufman professor of practice in social entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis. She just received nearly $1 million in grant money to figure out how to improve economic mobility in American cities. The Miami Herald sat down with her recently to find out more. Below is an edited version of a 40-minute interview with Cameron. It touches on why it's harder to get ahead today than it was decades ago, the value of money, a different way to think about housing, and what can be done to make life healthier and more affordable for everyone. The Herald encourages readers to listen to the full interview here: How do you define economic mobility? Economic mobility is basically just the changing of your economic status over time. It's a key part of the American Dream; the idea that kids can do better than their parents, that we're all improving as a society, and also that if you're born a child into poverty, you don't necessarily have to stay there. How mobile do you think the United States is today? The Federal Reserve System has noticed that, for the last 30 or 40 years, economic mobility is stagnating in the United States. Why is this happening? It's because of the way our economy has changed dramatically since the 1970s. What are some of those changes? After World War II, there were huge investments and growth in the American economy, and most of the money flowing in the economy was actually being used for what we would call productive things. It was industrial capitalism. People made investments into factories. The factories grew bigger. They made more stuff. They got profits from that. Then, the economy moved more into what we call financial services. The banking system, the insurance system and real estate took over more and more of the economy, and people could make money just by basically owning stuff, not by making stuff, and by charging other people to use it. Over the last 30 years, people who own assets, whether that be stocks and bonds or real estate, they've been getting a much better return on owning that stuff than people who work. And that leads to income concentrations at the top and at the bottom, and it makes it very hard for the people at the bottom to jump up, because the ladder is expanding. So your research will examine community wealth building. What is that? Community wealth building is the idea that, if a community controls more of its assets, and more of the money that's generated in the community stays there, then it will do better. What are some examples of community wealth building strategies you think could be successful or have been successful? Community banks. That's a publicly owned or community-driven bank, and its goal isn't just maximizing profits. They're covering their costs, but they're focusing on investing in local businesses and the needs of residents. So, for example, standing up kindergartens or grocery stores in neighborhoods that need them. Another strategy is making workers 'worker-owners.' How does that work? Right now, there's this huge transfer of wealth happening because so many baby boomers who built up businesses are retiring and realizing that there aren't necessarily people who want to buy their business. And so [some of my research is] going to be looking in Kansas City for different businesses where owners are wanting to retire. They don't want to see their businesses sold for scrap, but rather to be sold to their workers. Then the workers will have the opportunity to build assets through owning part of the business. We'll also focus on so-called 'anchor institutions' — universities, health centers, large employers in the area, organizations that are committed to that city — and come up with strategies for them to be able to buy more of the goods and services they need locally and keep that money flowing in the local community. Housing is a big issue here in Miami. Most people here are 'rent-burdened' and struggle to make ends meet. Some of your research will focus on strategies to make housing more affordable and attainable. Tell me about them. Normally when you buy a house, you're not just buying the house. You're buying the land underneath it. Because of that, the price is obviously a heck of a lot more than if you were only buying the use of the building. Shared equity models are basically a way for low-income people — who don't have the assets available to put down a big down payment but who do have the money to make monthly rent payments — to have stable housing. Community groups, like nonprofits, would do something called a 'community land trust,' which is basically a way to avoid gentrification. Locals who want to stay where they are but who can't afford to buy the houses, or who are having the houses bought out from under them, can come together and say, 'Hey, we should protect our neighborhood by turning it into a community land trust.' People are able to buy into [the housing on that land], but the amount of upside that they get on their investment in a house on that land is capped. The advantage is that they can get a house and have all the nice things about being in a house and having a nice neighborhood. But, because it's not floating on the free market, the amount of upside they get is capped, because they would sell [the house] back to the group they bought it from. The goal is to make it easier for people to get access to housing. And so the way they do that is to keep it permanently affordable and off the private market. So, if I understand correctly: nonprofits and/or individuals in a community form a land trust. That trust buys a plot of land. Let's say the trust, which is governed by a community board, decides to construct a building on that land. People buy units in that building, or a house on that land, but there's a limit to how much they can resell them for, and that keeps the housing affordable? Right. There'll be rules about what your income has to be in order to buy in. We can get more people into high quality, stable housing, if the goal is not just capital appreciation on the house. Especially in Miami, housing is often purchased explicitly for its appreciative value. People want the value of their homes to go up as much as possible, which goes against the concept you just outlined. So how have people received this idea? To make our economy work better for people requires people to think differently about what money is for and what the economy is for and what housing is for. There's a lot of people who are currently renting in a very insecure way, spending more than a third of their income on rent, which causes problems for their families, for their kids, which causes extra stress. If you told those people, who are hard-working and who have access to money to pay rent, 'you could buy this studio apartment that you're living in. You'll be part of a housing community where there are rules, but you'll help shape those rules. You'll have stability — what you pay isn't going to change in an unexpected way just because the landlord said so,' they would jump at that. And if they have extra money, then great, put it in the stock market. That's where we should be investing money. In the American economy. That would be my argument as an entrepreneur. Let's go build stuff to make more profit. Let's go create more innovations. Not just, I buy a house, you buy a house, we trade and we 'make' money. Housing can be seen not just as a speculative investment, but as something we need to have safe and healthy neighborhoods. We don't want people changing homes three times in one school year. We don't want neighborhoods that are broken down because the neighbors don't trust or know each other. We want places that are clean and healthy and walkable and good for families. Where people can build up as they go, rather than needing to have a whole bunch of money just to jump in and then be afraid that if they miss one payment, it'll be taken by a bank — which doesn't work to help them keep their home but is interested in selling it to the next guy. Practically speaking, how do these cooperative projects get off the ground? Who makes them happen? Lots of different people. There are banks and investment funds that do mission-driven finance. But even the big hedge funds are talking about the value of shared ownership and employee ownership as a way to unlock value for American companies, to get more people in the owner's box, getting them committed to improving companies because they're owners. In terms of the housing stuff: Generally, neighborhood organizations work with city governments or philanthropic organizations to stabilize neighborhoods and create opportunities for people to get into homes while avoiding gentrification. They come together to get a loan against the value of the land, and then they put houses or multi-family units on [the land]. Then, they're able to service that loan in perpetuity by the payments of the people who live there. Lots of banks have worked to help create these community land trusts because they see the value in stable neighborhoods for the greater community. And people are starting to do this in commercial real estate, too. There's a project in Portland where a community development fund bought a mall in a low-income area and turned it into a place where local small businesses could have their stores. People in the neighborhood and surrounding zip codes had the opportunity to buy into the community fund, and now they get a share of those rents. It's a question of how you get the money together. Their model was a whole bunch of people paying a small amount, plus initial startup money. It's just smarter ways of putting money to work. These things don't really require a huge amount of money. It's more technical know-how and willingness to learn from these examples, which are all over the United States, but not yet enough. We can do even more. That's a great place to wrap up. Dr. Cameron, thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure. I wish you and your readers prosperity in 2025. This story was produced with financial support from supporters including The Green Family Foundation Trust and Ken O'Keefe, in partnership with Journalism Funding Partners. The Miami Herald maintains full editorial control of this work.
