Six weeks after the Miami Herald first reported Hialeah Mayor Esteban “Steve” Bovo’s decision to step down and join a ...

For nearly a quarter-century Raul Martinez personified the City of Hialeah. La Ciudad que Progresa elected this giant-of-a-man mayor in 1981 after a one-term stint on the city council. A charming ...

Bovo’s political journey began in 1998 when he was elected to the Hialeah City Council with the backing of the city’s first and only Democratic mayor, Raul Martinez. He later served as a state ...

Jacqueline Garcia-Roves, the current city council president, is poised to step in as interim mayor, making her the first female mayor in Hialeah’s nearly 100-year history.