Our Friday Sociedad Media Now daily newsletter with two stories focusing on the top stories from the city of Miami.
Miami-Dade’s “Vice City” Makeover Stalls as Sheriff & County Officials Push Back on Grand Theft Auto VI Deal
MIAMI-DADE — A proposed marketing deal that would have wrapped Miami-Dade County infrastructure — including possibly Miami International Airport — in Grand Theft Auto VI’s “Vice City” branding ahead of the video game’s anticipated November launch has stalled after Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz and County Commissioner Juan Carlos Bermudez publicly objected.
Cordero-Stutz argued the county shouldn’t lend its name to a game “built around criminal activity,” while officials framed the proposal as a genuine tourism and revenue opportunity given the franchise’s massive global audience — leaving the county now weighing the tradeoff between viral marketing exposure and the risk of reinforcing a crime-centered caricature of the region.
“Have My Baby in Miami”: The Miami Doctor at the Center of Congress’s Birth Tourism Crackdown
MIAMI — Dr. Wladimir Lorentz, founder of “Have My Baby in Miami,” pleaded the Fifth Amendment eleven times before a House Oversight task force, refusing to answer questions about a business that’s claimed to facilitate the aid of over 2,000 women to travel to Miami specifically to give birth.
The hearing reflects a broader Republican pivot toward targeting birth tourism directly after the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order in June, with lawmakers now signaling a possible criminal referral to the Department of Justice.
