"Joe Carollo", is a former List of mayors of Miami/mayor of Miami, Florida. Defeated in a run-off by former mayor Xavier Suarez, his campaign filed a successful legal change based on voter fraud, becoming mayor in 1998 until 2001. Born in Caibarién, Cuba in 1955, Carollo moved to Miami when he was fifteen years old, having previously lived in Chicago. Carollo was mayor of Miami during the Elián González affair/Elián González scandal. As mayor, Carollo supported the efforts of Elian's Miami family to keep the boy in the United States, and criticized the U.S. and Cuban governments for the raid to retrieve Elián. Carollo lost his bid for re-election in 2001, and former mayor Maurice Ferre ran and lost against Manny Diaz (Florida politician)/Manny Diaz, a lawyer who had represented the Miami family of Elián González.

Joe Carollo, born in Caibarién, Cuba in March 12, 1955, at the age of 6 years, traveled

to the United States in Operation Peter Pan, with the good fortune to meet with his

parents six months after and they moved to Chicago and years later he moved to

Miami when he was fifteen years old.

At the age of eighteen JOE CAROLLO graduated from Miami Dade Community College with a

General Studies Degree. He also graduated from the Miami Dade Metropolitan Police

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What we're not going to do is give in to the threat of terrorism because once you've done that, then they've won and you've lost.

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This is a very dark day not just for Miami but for the country.

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