Latin America Report

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Latin America Report episodes

June 01, 2020 Carmen Question: A Politically Correct Venezuelan Exile – Or A Chavista Fraud?
They're a familiar sight and sound in South Florida’s Venezuelan community: videos of exiles defending themselves against accusations that they’re “Chavistas," or sympathizers of Venezuela’s authoritarian socialist regime, a government despised by almost every expat here.
9 min
June 01, 2020 Carmen Question: A Politically Correct Venezuelan Exile – Or A Chavista Fraud?
They're a familiar sight and sound in South Florida’s Venezuelan community: videos of exiles defending themselves against accusations that they’re “Chavistas," or sympathizers of Venezuela’s authoritarian socialist regime, a government despised by almost every expat here.
5 min
May 26, 2020 Cocaine Comeback: New Book Warns Drug Is More Plentiful – And Destructive – Than Ever
In South Florida we tend to think of the golden age of cocaine (if it can be called that) as the 1980s – iconic Colombian drug lords like Pablo Escobar and cocaine cowboys marauding through Miami. But according to British-American journalist Toby Muse, cocaine's real golden age is…today.
9 min
May 26, 2020 Cocaine Comeback: New Book Warns Drug Is More Plentiful – And Destructive – Than Ever
In South Florida we tend to think of the golden age of cocaine (if it can be called that) as the 1980s – iconic Colombian drug lords like Pablo Escobar and cocaine cowboys marauding through Miami. But according to British-American journalist Toby Muse, cocaine's real golden age is…today.
5 min
May 11, 2020 Tico Triumph? How Little Costa Rica Beat Back A Giant Coronavirus Pandemic
Like so many doctors around the world, pediatric surgeon Roberto Herrera was exposed to the new coronavirus back in early March.
9 min
May 11, 2020 Tico Triumph? How Little Costa Rica Beat Back A Giant Coronavirus Pandemic
Like so many doctors around the world, pediatric surgeon Roberto Herrera was exposed to the new coronavirus back in early March.
5 min
April 28, 2020 Expats: Ecuador's COVID-19 Meltdown Is A Warning For Americans Too
No country in Latin America and the Caribbean has been hit as hard by the new coronavirus as Ecuador. Brazil, a far larger country, may have more COVID-19 cases; but Ecuador’s death toll is thought to be twice as high as Brazil’s. And no place in Ecuador has suffered as terribly as the port city of Guayaquil.
12 min
April 28, 2020 Expats: Ecuador's COVID-19 Meltdown Is A Warning For Americans Too
No country in Latin America and the Caribbean has been hit as hard by the new coronavirus as Ecuador. Brazil, a far larger country, may have more COVID-19 cases; but Ecuador’s death toll is thought to be twice as high as Brazil’s. And no place in Ecuador has suffered as terribly as the port city of Guayaquil.
8 min
April 21, 2020 COVID Cold War: Trump And Cuba Tout Their Coronavirus Meds. But Do Scientists?
In Washington this month, President Trump announced the U.S. had just “bought a tremendous amount of hydroxychloroquine.” That’s the anti-malaria drug he insists is the most promising treatment for the new coronavirus, or COVID-19. "A game-changer,” the conservative leader likes to say.
9 min
April 21, 2020 COVID Cold War: Trump And Cuba Tout Their Coronavirus Meds. But Do Scientists?
In Washington this month, President Trump announced the U.S. had just “bought a tremendous amount of hydroxychloroquine.” That’s the anti-malaria drug he insists is the most promising treatment for the new coronavirus, or COVID-19. "A game-changer,” the conservative leader likes to say.
5 min

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In South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean are a local story - and the Latin America Report, which was a weekly WLRN feature from 2013 to 2023, looked at how the two often intersected and…