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August 19, 2019 U.N. Raises Aid Target For Venezuelans There – But Will U.S. Help Venezuelans Here?
The U.N. announced last week it has to ramp up humanitarian aid to Venezuelans. But it admits this new effort to deliver more food, medicine and other essentials to Venezuela will be “modest in terms of responding to the scale of needs” there. A new survey shows as much as a fifth of Venezuela's population have fled the country – and that number is rising. WLRN’s Luis Hernandez spoke with Americas editor Tim Padgett about where the Venezuela crisis is going – especially since the socialist
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August 19, 2019 U.N. Raises Aid Target For Venezuelans There – But Will U.S. Help Venezuelans Here?
The U.N. announced last week it has to ramp up humanitarian aid to Venezuelans. But it admits this new effort to deliver more food, medicine and other essentials to Venezuela will be “modest in terms of responding to the scale of needs” there. A new survey shows as much as a fifth of Venezuela's population have fled the country – and that number is rising.
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August 12, 2019 Smoky Science: UMiami Study Finds What's Foul In Africa Is Fertilizer In The Amazon
Thanks to research done at the University of Miami , we know the epic dust clouds that drift out of North Africa may sometimes prevent hurricanes. (They block the solar energy those cyclones need to form out in the Atlantic.) Now UM scientists have made another discovery linking Africa and the Americas – and this time it’s about smoke. They’ve found that fire smoke from southern Africa also floats our way and has a big, often beneficial impact on the Amazon rainforest and our oceans.
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August 12, 2019 Smoky Science: UMiami Study Finds What's Foul In Africa Is Fertilizer In The Amazon
Thanks to research done at the University of Miami, we know the epic dust clouds that drift out of North Africa may sometimes prevent hurricanes. (They block the solar energy those cyclones need to form out in the Atlantic.) Now UM scientists have made another discovery linking Africa and the Americas – and this time it’s about smoke. They’ve found that fire smoke from southern Africa also floats our way and has a big, often beneficial impact on the Amazon rainforest and our oceans.
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August 05, 2019 'Cycling's In Our Blood.' Colombians Celebrate Bernal's Tour De France Triumph
In Paris last week, Egan Bernal became the first Colombian – and the first Latin American – to ever win the Super Bowl of cycling: the Tour de France. At one point during his victory ceremony near the city’s Arc de Triomphe, an NBC sports commentator mused that “the Colombians have taken over” – and he may not have been far off.
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August 05, 2019 'Cycling's In Our Blood.' Colombians Celebrate Bernal's Tour De France Triumph
In Paris last week, Egan Bernal became the first Colombian – and the first Latin American – to ever win the Super Bowl of cycling: the Tour de France. At one point during his victory ceremony near the city’s Arc de Triomphe, an NBC sports commentator mused that “the Colombians have taken over” – and he may not have been far off.
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July 29, 2019 Cuban Socialism Meets Social Media. This Summer It's A New Revolution
In the U.S. today we use hashtags to hash out everything in our lives, from women’s rights to cancelled flights. But in Cuba, socialism has kept social media out of people’s lives. Until now.
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July 29, 2019 Cuban Socialism Meets Social Media. This Summer It's A New Revolution
In the U.S. today we use hashtags to hash out everything in our lives, from women’s rights to cancelled flights. But in Cuba, socialism has kept social media out of people’s lives.
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July 15, 2019 Brazilian Artists Keep João Gilberto's Bossa Nova Legacy Alive In South Florida
The Portuguese word saudade [pronounced sau-DAH-jee in Brazilian Portuguese] has no translation in English or any other language. It’s described as a deep, sad longing for that which has been lost indefinitely or for a time – a loved one, a place, a feeling. On July 6, Brazilians in South Florida – where a significant portion of Brazilians live in the United States – felt saudade for João Gilberto , the founder of what is arguably Brazil’s largest cultural export: Bossa Nova. Gilberto, a
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July 15, 2019 Brazilian Artists Keep João Gilberto's Bossa Nova Legacy Alive In South Florida
The Portuguese word saudade [pronounced sau-DAH-jee in Brazilian Portuguese] has no translation in English or any other language. It’s described as a deep, sad longing for that which has been lost indefinitely or for a time – a loved one, a place, a feeling.
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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…