Andrew Otazo Archives - Miami Creation Myth

Miami’s Hottest New App Helps Landlords Price Out Their Tenants

“We’re the Uber of gentrification! The TikTok of unaffordability! The Amazon of eviction! The Apple of displacement!” exclaimed Chad Wallinger. Gentri’s 27-year-old Founder and CEO stood sweaty and breathless, arms raised high above his head in exultation at his app’s...

Cuban Americans Should Set Aside Their Differences to Fight for Cuba

As a Cuban American, I am intimately aware that we agree on almost nothing. Politics, culture wars, economics, race relations, the time of day, nada. We are a deafeningly quarrelsome bunch, raucous in the extreme, unwavering in our determination to expire on whatever...

Everyone Who Isn’t Cuban Magically Becomes a Cuba Expert

The unprecedented rash of protests across Cuba catalyzed an equally remarkable wave of expertise to wash over everyone in the United States with the pointed exception of its 2.3 million Cuban-American residents. These 329.9 million newly minted Cuba experts lost no...

Cuban Americans Support Cuban Protestors by Yelling at Each Other

Edgardo Lupe, a portly 45-year-old Cuban American man in basketball shorts and a cutoff shirt, stood on his front lawn in Miami’s Westchester neighborhood, watering a mamey tree with a garden hose. “I’m so proud of my family in Cuba protesting for their rights against...

Miami Deports All Residents Earning Less than $40K

The Miami-Dade County government placed its legal imprint on an already growing trend, and simply made it illegal to reside within county limits if one earned less than $40,000 per year. Though many had already been displaced by outrageous housing costs, decrepit...

I Failed 8th Grade Science and Here’s Why Climate Change Isn’t Real

This image was taken from Mario Ariza’s book, Disposable City. Go read it. OK, yeah, I failed middle school Earth Science, but honestly, I don’t need to know the difference between igneous and metamorphic rocks to be sure climate change isn’t real, though...