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As the director of Haiti’s investment promotion agency, CFI, Georges
Andy René’s job was to lure investors to Haiti.
Of all the tales coming out of
the Panama Papers scandal, few
involve such an intriguing mix of
characters as the Haiti petroleum
deal.
The cast includes an ex-bank
executive, the former head of
Haiti’s investment promotion
agency, and a close friend of
then-Haitian President Michel
Martelly. Also in the mix: a
Trinidadian businessman who
once received a mysterious $1
million payment from a firm
linked to Brazil’s ongoing bribery
scandal. He is also a close associate of a disgraced former vice
president of the organization that
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Carlos Alvarez turned himself in
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BY CHARLES RABIN
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Former Miami-Dade mayor and
police director Carlos Alvarez — a
strict disciplinarian who out of
office turned to bodybuilding —
was arrested on a domestic battery charge that stemmed over a
fight about a cat, police said.
The 63-year-old Coral Gables
resident, recalled from office five
years ago in a stunning rebuke by
his constituents, turned himself in
to police Wednesday morning. He
was charged with
one count of domestic battery and
transported to the
Turner Guilford
Knight correctional
Alvarez
facility.
Miami-Dade
Corrections spokeswoman Janelle
Hall said Alvarez would remain in
jail overnight Wednesday and see
a judge in domestic violence court
Thursday morning. His bond was
set at $1,500.
Coral Gables police, who made
the arrest, wouldn’t comment
outside of Alvarez’s arrest report.
The report, a brief paragraph with
Alvarez’s phone number and
address blacked out — they’re
exempt under state statute because he’s a former police officer
— said the incident happened
Sunday afternoon.
Police said the former mayor
fought with his girlfriend Saturday
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BY DAVID FLESHLER
South Florida Classical Review
Few artistic events carry as much
weight of tradition as performances
by symphony orchestras: the darksuited musicians; the repertoire pillars by Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky; the procession of overture,
concerto,
intermission
and symphony.
While Johannes
Brahms or
Robert Schumann might
have blinked
at the electric
lights and
Michael Tilson
covered their
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ears at the
modern harmonies, little else about a performance in 2016 would surprise them.
When the New World Symphony
moved into its new hall in Miami
Beach five years ago, its leaders were
determined to try alternatives. One
example is the concert that will take
place Saturday, titled simply “New
Work.” There will be nothing on the
program by masters of the past.
Everything will be a world premiere.
No one will go in knowing what to
expect, and no one will know any
more about the music than anyone
else.
“The idea is to have it be more like
a gallery opening,” said Michael
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U.S. Hispanics growing clout and numbers
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Special to the Miami Herald
he “tectonic shifts”
happening in Latino
culture and music and
the ways new technology has changed the industry
are two topics at the core of this
year’s Billboard Latin Music Conference at the Ritz-Carlton hotel
in Miami Beach.
“It’s a young conference with
speakers that reflect a younger
demographic and that explores a
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commodities are valued
and much more — is further complicated when Valdés’ mostly fluent Spanish
Artist Juana Valdés
trips over words like
stands at the door of the
“race,” “borders” and
Fountainhead Studios in
“commodity,” prompting
Miami’s Little River disfriendly and confused detrict, greeting a stream of
bate.
her counterparts from Cuba
“Comfort?” offers Inti
with smiles and kisses.
Hernández, one of the
“How lovely you all are!”
Cuban visitors. “Roots?”
Valdés says, leading the
suggests another.
group to her studio, where
Hernández and 14 other
she offers orange juice and Cuban artists and curators
pastelitos. She also offers a
are in Miami for Dialogues
long explanation of her
in Cuban Art, an exchange
installation of ceramic
project organized by Miami
dishes and figurines whose curator Elizabeth Cerejido
complex background —
and sponsored by the John
involving colonialism, the
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relationship between inFoundation and collector
dividual and society, how
Jorge Pérez. Their visit,
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which began April 20, and
culminates in a two-day
symposium at the Pérez Art
Museum Miami on Thursday and Friday, may not
have the political heft of
President Barack Obama’s
trip to Cuba last month, or
the celebrity visibility of
Usher and Smokey Robinson’s recent Havana visit.
But these artists’ Miami
stay, packed with new experiences, revelations,
emotional and conceptual
connections and efforts to
understand a foreign art
world, is a kind of microcosm for the complicated
integration taking place
between the island and the
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capital of the Cuban diaspora.
“For me as a person
from a country that needs
to find a way to open up to
the international arena and
welcome all experiences
and opinions, it is very
meaningful,” Hernández
says. “For me and for everybody.”
Hernández, who has
lived in the Netherlands
for a decade, and others in
this group — many of
whom have worked or
studied abroad — are far
better acquainted with the
world outside Cuba than
the vast majority of its
residents. “Since I was
little I wanted to know the
world,” says Glenda León,
another Cuban artist. Yet
while León has lived and
studied in Europe and
traveled several times to
Miami, this trip —
crammed with visits to
studios, museums, collections, dinners at people’s
homes and a ceaseless flow
of formal and informal talk
— is far more revealing.
Valdés, who is CubanAmerican, was part of the
Dialogue project’s first
phase, which brought seven Cuban-American artists to Havana last May.
She is familiar with her
visitors’ situation at home
— which sparks a debate on
the phrase “live-work.” A
real estate catch phrase in
Miami is a practical reality
in Havana, where lack of
space, money and commercial galleries means
most artists work, display
and sell their art at home.
“I dream of space to do
installations,” León says.
But Valdés, whose studio
is in an area filling with
galleries and artists fleeing
the commercialization in
Wynwood, sees the Cubans’ situation differently.
“When gentrification happens in Havana, they won’t
be as displaced as we are,”
she says.
Next stop is the The
Margulies Collection in
Wynwood, where Cerejido
has paid $25 a head for a
guided tour. The centerpiece is a new exhibit of
works by German artist
Anselm Keifer, mostly
massive pieces like a pair
of towering, rough concrete structures, which
resemble some of the decaying buildings in Havana. But the Cubans keep
wandering off into this
artistic wonderland. Lázaro
Saavedra, a leading figure
from Cuba’s politically and
conceptually rebellious
“’80s Generation,” photographs pieces from odd
angles: the shadows cast by
an Isamu Noguchi sculpture, down a hollow pipe in
a Richard Serra piece.
“I’m looking for a point
of view that’s out of the
ordinary,” he says.
Felipe Dulzaides was
captivated by Susan Philipsz’ installation Part File
Score, where blow-ups of
scores by Austrian composer Hanns Eisler are covered by FBI reports on
Eisler, who fled the Nazis
for the United States and
was investigated for his
communist politics. For
Dulzaides, the piece
echoes his own work
inspired by his father, also
Felipe Dulzaides, who
played and promoted jazz
in Cuba when it was politically suspect.
“You don’t escape the
system,” Dulzaides says.
“I’m working on the same
issues of music and misunderstanding. There’s an
emotional parallel in the
sense of what artists go
through. … It’s interesting
how societies overcome
those things and how important it is to talk about
them.”
The possibility of such
moments is what inspired
Cerejido to create the Dialogues project two years
ago. While she was worried
about whether the project
still mattered amid the
growing flood of interaction with Cuba, Cerejidos has been surprised
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and gratified at her guests’
reactions to a piece by
legendary Cuban-American avant-garde artist Ana
Mendieta, nestled in the
roots of a ceiba tree in
Little Havana; or their
wonder at the wealth of
uncensored history in the
Cuban Heritage Collection
at the University of Miami.
“They were amazed that
a neutral space like that
exists in the diaspora,”
says Cerejidos, standing at
the coffee counter of El
Palacio de Los Jugos on
West Flagler Street, a homey exile landmark she has
visited since she was a
little girl and where she has
brought the artists for
lunch. She is smiling, but
her eyes are bright with
moisture. “I could cry
about it. It reinforced to
me that this is still meaningful. I was asking myself ‘Are these things still
relevant? Yes, they are’.”
Sitting in El Palacio’s
bustling outdoor patio,
echoing with Cuban-ac-
cented Spanish, Saavedra
is confronting some of the
personal angles of this trip.
His cousin, who recently
made the dangerous trek
from Cuba through Central America to Miami, has
met him here for lunch.
Next their group goes to
the studio of José Bedia,
possibly Miami’s most
famous exile artist, and a
friend from Saavedra’s
generation whom he
hasn’t seen in over 20
years. Asked why he didn’t
also leave, Saavedra
shrugs.
“They decided to leave,”
he says. “I didn’t decide to
stay. What am I going to
tell you? There are no
words for this — there’s
too much emotion.”
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of Sound Exchange, an
independent nonprofit
collective management
organization that gathers
and distributes digital
performance royalties to
featured artists and copyright holders and is sponsoring this year’s event,
agrees with Cobo.
“What’s most exciting
about the music industry
right now is that there’s an
unbelievable explosion, not
only of the places to get
music, but of the type of
music available,” Huppe
says.
“There’s no limit to the
type of music you can find.
… What people listened to
before was dictated by
local radio, but now, not so
much.”
The conference also
reflects Latin music’s expansion beyond pop, featuring artists in a variety of
genres, particularly reggaeton.
“There’s starting to be a
blurring of the lines, and
I’d like to bring more
mainstream people to the
conference,” Cobo says.
“It’s a vibrant, developing, growing genre. …
Many people are unaware
of what a big business
Latin music is. It’s now
part of the fabric of music
in this country.”
She cites the hit Broadway musical Hamilton,
created by Lin-Manuel
Miranda, who is of Puerto
Rican descent, and more
Latin music in films and
TV shows — as well as
online services such as
VEVO, which regularly
MUSIC
lot of new topics,” said
Leila Cobo, Billboard’s
executive director of Latin
content and programming.
“It’s a different world from
what it was, even one year
ago. People are still looking
for great music, but technology has changed what
we listen to and how we
listen to it.”
The 27th edition of the
conference, which began
Monday and finishes
Thursday with the Billboard Latin Music Awards,
mirrors the changing industry, Cobo says.
‘NEW SOURCES’
“Radio has long been the
source of discovery for new
music, and though it still is,
there are many new sources,” Cobo says. “Streaming
has become a big deal and
it’s growing stronger, a lot
more people are streaming
music as opposed to buying.”
Cobo says digital distribution and streaming
services like Spotify are
helping to change the
game. “It’s not just random
playlists put together by
fans anymore,” Cobo says.
“There are playlists generated by the site for its users, which are curated
music charts, so, there’s
other avenues of discovery
which weren’t there before.”
Michael Huppe, a conference panelist and CEO
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Clockwise, from top left:
Cuban artist Lázaro
Saavedra photographs the
Richard Serra sculpture
‘Pole and Plate’ at the
Margulies Collection at the
Warehouse in Miami. Miami
artist and curator Elizabeth
Cerejido, at the site of an
Ana Mendieta work in Little
Havana, conceived and
organized the Dialogues in
Cuban Art project. Cuban
artists Felipe Dulzaides, left,
and Yornel Martínez talk
with Miami artist Juana
Valdés in her studio. Artist
Rubén Torres Llorca,
second from right, with
Aylet Ojeda, curator at the
Cuban National Museum of
Arts, and artist Felipe
Dulzaidez, Ana Clara Silva,
and group coordinator,
Lazaro Saavedra and Inti
Hernandez, left, bacl, during
a visit to Ruben's studio in
Coral Gables.
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If You Go
What: Dialogues in Cuban
Art symposium
When: Various times
Thursday and Friday
Where: Pérez Art Museum
Miami, 1103 Biscayne Blvd.,
Miami
Info: Free with museum
admission; details
pamm.org or 305-375-3000
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features Latin artists on its
homepage.
“More than a musical
phenomenon to me, I think
it’s a demographic shift,”
Cobo says. “Latinos make
up such a large portion of
the population, it’s impossible not to see the culture
seeping in, and music, of
course, is a big passion
point.”
BIG NUMBERS
That passion can translate into big numbers.
According to Comscore, an
internet analytics and marketing data agency, iHeartRadio, an online radio
service, reaches 38 million
Hispanics, while Pandora,
another online radio service, reaches 15 million
Hispanics
monthly.
“Latin
music is one
of the music
industry’s
fastest growing segHuppe
ments,”
Huppe says.
“At SoundExchange we
process royalties for digital
radio services, many of
which have reported a 25
percent increase in Latino
listenership.” In 2015,
SoundExchange paid approximately $56 million in
royalties to Latino artists
and copyright holders.
“It’s exciting, and we’re
making an ever-growing
effort to engage with our
Latino constituency,
there’s no doubt it’s an
incredibly important segment.”
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