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- How A Miami Bank Became HQ For Efforts That Led To Panama Invasion 30 Years AgoThirty years ago this Friday – Dec. 20, 1989 – the U.S. invaded Panama. The main objective was to capture the Panamanian dictator, General Manuel Noriega, who was wanted in the U.S. for drug trafficking. The invasion also restored democracy in Panama.9 min
- How A Miami Bank Became HQ For Efforts That Led To Panama Invasion 30 Years AgoThirty years ago this Friday – Dec. 20, 1989 – the U.S. invaded Panama. The main objective was to capture the Panamanian dictator, General Manuel Noriega, who was wanted in the U.S. for drug trafficking. The invasion also restored democracy in Panama. What's less known is that the effort in Washington to oust Noriega started in Miami, at what was then Dadeland Bank. The bank was owned by Panamanian exiles — and the man who connected them to Congress in the 1980s was a board member: Miami5 min
- Back To The U.S.-Cuba Future? New Animosities Raise Fears Relations May Be Severed AgainLast month a big anniversary in the western hemisphere went largely unnoticed in the U.S.9 min
- Back To The U.S.-Cuba Future? New Animosities Raise Fears Relations May Be Severed AgainLast month a big anniversary in the western hemisphere went largely unnoticed in the U.S. Havana – one of the oldest capitals in the Americas – celebrated its 500 th birthday. Among the few Americans at the fiesta was former Key West city commissioner and Cuba native Tony Yaniz.5 min
- The Elián Drama 20 Years After: Miami Judge Remembers The 'Hardest Decision'Twenty years ago this week, on Thanksgiving Day, a 5-year-old Cuban boy named Elián González was found floating on an inner tube in the Atlantic off Fort Lauderdale. His mother had taken him with her fleeing communist Cuba. She drowned. For the next seven months, Elián was the focus of a bizarre tug-of -war between his father in Cuba and his Cuban exile relatives in Miami – who wanted to keep Elián in the U.S.9 min
- The Elián Drama 20 Years After: Miami Judge Remembers The 'Hardest Decision'Twenty years ago this week, on Thanksgiving Day, a 5-year-old Cuban boy named Elián González was found floating on an inner tube in the Atlantic off Fort Lauderdale. His mother had taken him with her fleeing communist Cuba. She drowned. For the next seven months, Elián was the focus of a bizarre tug-of -war between his father in Cuba and his Cuban exile relatives in Miami – who wanted to keep Elián in the U.S.5 min
- The Immigration Crisis Falls On Her Doorstep. 'Where We Come From' Explores What Happens Next.Few issues dominate our politics today more passionately than immigration, but we rarely see the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border dramatized in fiction. Now Texas author and border native Oscar Cásares has written what one critic calls a “quietly suspenseful” novel titled “Where We Come From.”9 min
- The Immigration Crisis Falls On Her Doorstep. 'Where We Come From' Explores What Happens Next.Few issues dominate our politics today more passionately than immigration, but we rarely see the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border dramatized in fiction. Now Texas author and border native Oscar Cásares has written what one critic calls a “quietly suspenseful” novel titled “Where We Come From.”5 min
- Lawsuit Confronts Venezuelan Witch-Hunt Campaigns – And Social Media SitesTwo years ago, Levin de Grazia told WLRN he was the victim of a malicious online defamation campaign. “This situation is like a witch hunt,” he said. De Grazia is a Venezuela native and co-owner of the Bocas restaurant chain in South Florida. He’s based in Doral – the largest Venezuelan enclave in the U.S. – and he feared the effort to smear his name could ruin his business. “It could break us,” he said at the time. “No Venezuelans want to go to a Chavista restaurant.”5 min
- Lawsuit Confronts Venezuelan Witch-Hunt Campaigns – And Social Media SitesTwo years ago, Levin de Grazia told WLRN he was the victim of a malicious online defamation campaign.9 min
About Latin America Report
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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…
affected each other politically, economically and culturally. Its award-winning reports included the six-part Migration Maze series, which examined new U.S. policies to address illegal immigration at its source in Central America instead of at the border; the three-part series Escape From Venezuela, examining the Venezuelan refugee crisis in South America and Venezuelan exile efforts to alleviate it; and reporting from Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria 2017, which revealed how Florida Puerto Ricans essentially filled the aid needs that U.S. relief efforts couldn’t.
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