With Cafecito Cups and Direct Action, Miami Artists Rise Against “Alligator Alcatraz”

With Cafecito Cups and Direct Action, Miami Artists Rise Against “Alligator Alcatraz”

MIAMI — On a July afternoon, in an abandoned boutique sandwiched unassumingly between a dentist’s office, a Latin grocery store, and a barbershop, Little Havana residents and artists gathered for their afternoon cafecito ritual. But instead of coffee, the plastic fluted espresso cups held swamp mud from the Everglades and checkpoint soil from the entrance to Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigrant detention center at the center of a lawsuit …

The Alligator Alcatraz Syndicate

In the shadowy confluence of a declared state of emergency and political ambition, Florida initiated the Alligator Alcatraz project. An investigation reveals this was no ordinary government undertaking. Over $245 million in public funds were funneled through a protected, non-competitive procurement system to a hand-picked syndicate of corporations. The downloadable report dissects the operation, exposing […]