Lizette Alvarez

Miami

Lizette Alvarez previously worked at the Miami Herald, the New York Daily News and the New York Times, where she spent 22 years covering New York, Europe, Congress, military veterans, Florida and Puerto Rico. In her most recent posting, she served as Miami bureau chief for the New York Times. Alvarez has won several awards for her reporting including the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Polk Award.
Latest from Lizette Alvarez

Florida moves to revive a reckless approach to the death penalty

Lawmakers want to allow judges as well as juries that cant agree unanimously to sentence people to death.

February 20, 2023

The elderly are targets. My family learned too late how to fight scams.

My septuagenarian mother-in-law was taken for $25,000. Here's how to protect your relatives from this epidemic of fraud exploiting the trust of older citizens.

February 8, 2023

Why does U.S. policy still favor Cuban migrants? Others are plenty deserving, too.

Cuban Americans should demand that migrants from other nations receive the benefits we enjoy.

December 28, 2022

The Florida Democratic Party is in ruins. Rebuilding for 2024 better start now.

Not a single Democrat will hold a statewide position for the first time since the late 1800s. Florida Democrats needs to learn from the GOP's success.

November 24, 2022

DeSantis unleashes the Florida voter-fraud squad. Perplexity ensues.

Several ex-felons were allowed to register to vote ahead of the 2020 election and received either voter cards or mail-in ballots. Now they're under arrest.

October 26, 2022

How a law-and-order Democrat could disrupt Rubio’s glide to reelection

Val Demings wields her law-enforcement experience like a different kind of police shield: to deflect the usual soft-on-crime attacks by Republicans.

October 10, 2022

Abortion isn’t a dirty word in Florida, but DeSantis and the GOP act like it is

A citizen-led effort for a constitutional amendment may be the best path to protecting women's rights, but the state makes getting on the ballot difficult.

September 1, 2022

Fake news speaks many languages, but it’s particularly fond of Spanish

For too long on Spanish-language Miami radio, conservative voices and disinformation have been almost indistinguishable.

July 18, 2022

Democratic alarms sound over DeSantis’s new elections overseer

Worried about a Trumpian takeover of secretary of state offices around the country? In Florida, we've already got one.

July 6, 2022

How Florida’s red-flag law helps stop potential mass shootings

Even the "Gunshine State" takes guns from people considered a threat to others or themselves. Congress should follow suit.

June 1, 2022