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April 22, 2019 Trump And Title III: Will Exile Lawsuits Drive Investment Out Of Cuba – Or Fizzle?
Last week, National Security Advisor John Bolton came to Miami to announce President Trump is unleashing a tool of the Cuban embargo: Title III. “Americans who have had their private and hard-earned property stolen in Cuba will finally be allowed to sue,” Bolton, to resounding applause, told hundreds of mostly conservative Cuban exiles at a luncheon for Bay of Pigs veterans.
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April 22, 2019 Trump And Title III: Will Exile Lawsuits Drive Investment Out Of Cuba – Or Fizzle?
Last week, National Security Advisor John Bolton came to Miami to announce President Trump is unleashing a tool of the Cuban embargo: Title III.
5 min
April 15, 2019 Wife Of Jailed Guaidó Aide: 'The Only Terrorist In Venezuela Is The Regime'
Venezuelan art dealer Romy Moreno was in South Florida last month when she got an urgent call from her husband, Roberto Marrero, in Caracas. Agents of Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro were ransacking their apartment and arresting Marrero – who is the chief of staff to Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó. The U.S. and 50 other countries recognize Guaidó as Venezuela's legitimate president. Marrero is now in prison awaiting trial. His wife is with relatives in Doral, and
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April 15, 2019 Wife Of Jailed Guaidó Aide: 'The Only Terrorist In Venezuela Is The Regime'
Venezuelan art dealer Romy Moreno was in South Florida last month when she got an urgent call from her husband, Roberto Marrero, in Caracas.
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April 08, 2019 Guatemalan Climate Change Refugees Pouring Over U.S. Border – And Into South Florida
Last week President Trump threatened to close the U.S. southern border because record numbers of Central American migrants are arriving there – including 100,000 apprehended in March. “I’m not playing games,” Trump warned. “We can’t hold people anymore.” But what’s lost in Trump’s border-security bluster is that there’s something unusual about this wave of Central American migrants. Most are not from Honduras or El Salvador. Most are instead from Guatemala. And immigrant advocates say the main
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April 08, 2019 Guatemalan Climate Change Refugees Pouring Over U.S. Border – And Into South Florida
Last week President Trump threatened to close the U.S. southern border because record numbers of Central American migrants are arriving there – including 100,000 apprehended in March. “I’m not playing games,” Trump warned. “We can’t hold people anymore.”
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April 01, 2019 Cubans Here, On The Island Say New Visitor Visa Hurts Their Interests – And U.S. Interests
It’s been less than a month since the visitor visas for Cubans coming to the U.S. were scaled down. A lot. They used to be good for five years and you could come in again and again – similar to U.S. visitor visas for people from many other countries. But now: three months – and just one visit. And that’s clouded the future of Cuban entrepreneurs like Rubén Valladares.
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April 01, 2019 Cubans Here, On The Island Say New Visitor Visa Hurts Their Interests – And U.S. Interests
It’s been less than a month since the visitor visas for Cubans coming to the U.S. were scaled down. A lot.
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March 26, 2019 Will Venezuelan Regime Arrest Juan Guaidó? Answer May Lie In Cuba's Past
Most of the news from Venezuela in recent days is not encouraging for the restoration of democracy there. Late last week President Nicolás Maduro's regime arrested Roberto Marrero, the top aide to opposition leader Juan Guaidó - whom the U.S. and 50 other countries recognize as Venezuela's legitimate president. Then on Sunday, Russia flew a military advisor and 100 troops into Venezuela to support Maduro. WLRN's Luis Hernandez spoke with Americas correspondent Tim Padgett on Sundial about the
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March 26, 2019 Will Venezuelan Regime Arrest Juan Guaidó? Answer May Lie In Cuba's Past
Most of the news from Venezuela in recent days is not encouraging for the restoration of democracy there. Late last week President Nicolás Maduro's regime arrested Roberto Marrero, the top aide to opposition leader Juan Guaidó - whom the U.S. and 50 other countries recognize as Venezuela's legitimate president. Then on Sunday, Russia flew a military advisor and 100 troops into Venezuela to support Maduro.
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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…