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Latin America Report episodes

July 08, 2019 'It Is Our Fault.' After Tragic Border Drownings, South Florida Salvadorans See Hope
When Silvia Sarmiento saw the photo of drowned Salvadoran migrants Oscar Martínez and his toddler daughter Valeria, she gasped and recalled how close she'd come to their fate.
5 min
July 08, 2019 'It Is Our Fault.' After Tragic Border Drownings, South Florida Salvadorans See Hope
When Silvia Sarmiento saw the photo of drowned Salvadoran migrants Oscar Martínez and his toddler daughter Valeria, she gasped and recalled how close she'd come to their fate.
5 min
July 01, 2019 What If They Held A Debate In Miami And Nobody Talked About Latin America?
Miami is often called the capital of Latin America. So when 20 Democratic presidential candidates gathered for debates in Miami last week, WLRN’s Americas editor Tim Padgett thought he'd hear more about Latin America policy. But as Padgett told WLRN’s Luis Hernandez, he and a lot of other South Floridians were disappointed.
5 min
July 01, 2019 What If They Held A Debate In Miami And Nobody Talked About Latin America?
Miami is often called the capital of Latin America. So when 20 Democratic presidential candidates gathered for debates in Miami last week, WLRN’s Americas editor Tim Padgett thought he'd hear more about Latin America policy. But as Padgett told WLRN’s Luis Hernandez, he and a lot of other South Floridians were disappointed.
5 min
June 24, 2019 Brasileiros Divided: Did Moro Bust Brazil's Corruption – Or Betray Its Democracy?
When Sergio Moro gave a lecture at the University of Miami last year he got a loud, standing ovation — because what he was doing in Brazil struck a loud, resounding chord in South Florida. Moro was the man who was draining the deep, fetid swamp of corruption in Brazil.
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June 24, 2019 Brasileiros Divided: Did Moro Bust Brazil's Corruption – Or Betray Its Democracy?
When Sergio Moro gave a lecture at the University of Miami last year he got a loud, standing ovation — because what he was doing in Brazil struck a loud, resounding chord in South Florida.
5 min
June 17, 2019 Expats Want To Fix Haiti's Food Crisis By Buying Its Food. It Actually Makes Sense
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June 17, 2019 Expats Want To Fix Haiti's Food Crisis By Buying Its Food. It Actually Makes Sense
Last week Haiti saw violent street clashes between police and protesters calling for the ouster of President Jovenel Moïse. Moïse is accused of embezzling a million dollars in public funds earmarked for building new roads in rural Haiti – a case that’s part of a $2 billion embezzlement scandal rocking the western hemisphere’s poorest nation.
5 min
June 10, 2019 Is U.S.-Cuba Engagement Dead? Normalization Promoters Say They Can Wait Out Trump
Last week President Trump dealt another blow to the U.S. policy of engagement with communist Cuba. He banned U.S. people-to-people travel to Cuba – and also cruise line travel, which last year carried an estimated 800,000 passengers to the island. It was just the latest rollback of the normalization of relations that Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, began five years ago. And it raises the question: Does U.S. engagement with Cuba have a future anymore?
5 min
June 10, 2019 Is U.S.-Cuba Engagement Dead? Normalization Promoters Say They Can Wait Out Trump
Last week President Trump dealt another blow to the U.S. policy of engagement with communist Cuba. He banned U.S. people-to-people travel to Cuba – and also cruise line travel, which last year carried an estimated 800,000 passengers to the island. It was just the latest rollback of the normalization of relations that Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, began five years ago. And it raises the question: Does U.S. engagement with Cuba have a future anymore?
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…