Visitors can eat traditional Cuban food at restaurants like Versailles. This unofficial Cuban community center has been included in books and films about life in Miami.
That was “Conga” sung by Gloria Estefan, another Cuban-American.
Many Haitians Also Call Miami Home
Miami is home to many people from other Caribbean countries. More than 100,000 Haitians live in the Greater Miami area.
One neighborhood is known as Little Haiti. The walls of some of the buildings there are painted with huge murals. The pictures tell the history of the Haitian people.
A restaurant called Tap Tap in Miami Beach is known for its Haitian food and for performances by the singer and Haitian activist Manno Charlemagne.
Like many people in Miami, he fled repression in his country. Later, he returned to Haiti and served as the mayor of Port Au Prince. Here he sings in Haitian Creole.
Wheelchair Thieves and Other Miami Characters
The reporter and fiction writer Carl Hiaasen writes for the Miami Herald newspaper. Local people tell their friends from other places to read his books to understand Miami. The writer says he gets all of his ideas from south Florida newspapers.
CBS News correspondent Steve Kroft spoke to Mr. Hiaasen for the television news show “60 Minutes.” The reporter asked about some of the people who appear in Mr. Hiassen’s novels.
STEVE KROFT: Are these stories true or inventions of your imagination? Professional wheelchair thief?
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