About MiamiSway

How Miami actually works — an evergreen field guide to the city.

MiamiSway is a reference to the people, families, neighborhoods, eras, dynasties, landmarks, movements, organizations, and events that shaped Miami. It is not news and not a newsletter. Every page is meant to stay useful for years, and the whole thing grows as one cross-linked web: click any name and you land on its own page, which points you onward to everything it touches.

The thesis

One idea runs through the whole site: Miami is a Latin American business capital that happens to sit inside U.S. borders — not a U.S. city with Latin American character. Read the neighborhoods, the dynasties, and the migration waves through that lens and the city stops looking like an anomaly and starts looking like a capital.

How it's built

The site is a single growing database of entries, each linked to the others. When an entry mentions a person, place, or era that has its own page, that mention becomes a link; when it mentions one not yet written, it shows in bold — a standing list of what to write next.

Sourcing and accuracy

Entries are drawn from public histories, books, archives, and reporting. We try to be accurate and we flag uncertain facts rather than state them too firmly. Spot something wrong? Corrections are genuinely welcome — use the Contact page.