Employees of Radio & TV Martí in Miami earned an average of $109,208 in 2018, easily more than double that of most American workers. Tomás P. Regalado, the former mayor of Miami and director of Radio & TV Martí, led in earnings with $165,000. Irvin Rubenstein, the agency’s administrative officer, followed with $164,200, according to … Read more
Even after U.S. government ousted Manuel Noriega and threw him in prison, the former Panamanian strongman’s name remained on an American blacklist of foreigners. Noriega, once a prized CIA intelligence source, died in May 2017 and he is still on the U.S. Treasury Department’s latest blacklist, along with more than 7,000 other people, companies, organizations … Read more
Every once in a while, I dig into the federal budget to see how the government is spending our tax dollars. Federal agencies reported spending $118,720,386,231 from Oct. 1, 2018, through July 8, 2019. We spent a lot for fruits and vegetables – $234,694,749.05 – but even more for bombs. The generic bombs listing in … Read more
An investigation published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 40 people who worked at the U.S. Embassy in Havana experienced a loss in white brain matter. Authors of the 12-page study, called “Neuroimaging Findings in US Government Personnel With Possible Exposure to Directional Phenomena in Cuba,” said the cause of … Read more
