{"id":269689,"date":"2026-05-13T17:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269689\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:17:08","slug":"alex-otaola-announces-end-of-miami-dade-mayors-recall-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269689\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Otaola announces end of Miami-Dade mayor\u2019s recall campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 13, 2026 at 12:45 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Cuban-American YouTuber Alex Otaola announced on Wednesday that he was ending his effort to recall Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement, Otaola said he \u201cdid not obtain the required number of signatures to convene the special election,\u201d so \u201cthe recall effort was not successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The petition was approved in January. It required about 66,000 valid Miami-Dade County residents\u2019 signatures by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Otaola, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Cubanosporelmundo\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Cubanosporelmundo\">728,000 subscribers on YouTube<\/a>, had criticized Levine Cava as a leftist who had neglected Miami International Airport and Miami Animal Services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 13, 2026 at 12:45 PM MIAMI \u2014 Cuban-American YouTuber Alex Otaola announced on Wednesday that he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-269689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}