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sop

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2. Fidel has been on every ballot in Miami-Dade for decades.

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Wed Aug 31, 2022, 09:29 AM

Aug 2022

It matters little that he's been dead for years. One can't even run for street sweeper in Hialeah without first taking an appropriately hostile foreign policy position towards Castro. A few years ago the Miami Marlins fired manager Ozzie Guillen because he dared praise Fidel Castro in passing during a sports interview. Fidel Castro is the third rail of South Florida politics.

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Fidel has been on every ballot in Miami-Dade for decades. sop Aug 2022 #2