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January 29, 2019 Diplomatic Defections, Petro-Pressures: Where Is The Venezuelan Crisis Headed?
A top official at the Venezuelan consulate in Miami on Monday recognized National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó as the rightful president of Venezuela. First Consul Scarlet Salazar was just the latest diplomat to abandon Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The authoritarian socialist leader is facing an ever-growing chorus inside and outside his country demanding that he leave office. WLRN's Christine DiMattei spoke with Americas correspondent Tim Padgett about the rapid developments in this
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January 29, 2019 Diplomatic Defections, Petro-Pressures: Where Is The Venezuelan Crisis Headed?
A top official at the Venezuelan consulate in Miami on Monday recognized National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó as the rightful president of Venezuela. First Consul Scarlet Salazar was just the latest diplomat to abandon Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The authoritarian socialist leader is facing an ever-growing chorus inside and outside his country demanding that he leave office.
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January 21, 2019 Guaidó Gambit: Why Venezuelans There And Here Are Suddenly More Hopeful
Don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó. Most Venezuelans had never heard of Guaidó – until President Nicolás Maduro’s intelligence agents dragged him from his car near Caracas last week and briefly detained him.
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January 21, 2019 Guaidó Gambit: Why Venezuelans There And Here Are Suddenly More Hopeful
Don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó. Most Venezuelans had never heard of Guaidó – until President Nicolás Maduro’s intelligence agents dragged him from his car near Caracas last week and briefly detained him.
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January 15, 2019 Does Baseball Deal Help Cuban People Or Cuban Regime? Trump May Decide.
Leonys Martín was the first Cuban baseball player Paul Minoff ever represented. Minoff, an attorney with GrayRobinson in Fort Lauderdale, was astonished by the scary stories Martín told him about being smuggled out of communist Cuba by human traffickers.
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January 15, 2019 Does Baseball Deal Help Cuban People Or Cuban Regime? Trump May Decide.
Leonys Martín was the first Cuban baseball player Paul Minoff ever represented. Minoff, an attorney with GrayRobinson in Fort Lauderdale, was astonished by the scary stories Martín told him about being smuggled out of communist Cuba by human traffickers.
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December 26, 2018 Populists, Immigrants, Refugees – And Women – Dominated Latin America In 2018
Immigrant caravans – and family separation. Venezuela and Nicaragua rocked by refugee and human rights crises. Someone not named Castro becoming president of Cuba; Brazil and Mexico electing populists as presidents – one of them with a big reputation for sexism. But women surging big at the polls, too. To review some of Latin America and the Caribbean’s top stories of 2018, WLRN’s Tim Padgett sat down with Felicia Knaul of the University of Miami. Knaul heads UM’s Institute for Advanced Study of
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December 17, 2018 Caribbean Christmas Classic: Black Cake A Piquant Feature Of South Florida Holidays
Turns out Kathy Ann Paul – aka Sweet Hand Kathy – is as capable a DJ as she is a baker. Right now, when you walk into her Miami Gardens restaurant – called, of course, Sweet Hand Kathy – you’re likely to be regaled with “parang,” a festive blend of music like Trinidadian calypso and Venezuelan gaita. That’s because parang season means Christmas season in Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean island country where Paul grew up. “We’re definitely paranging these days,” Paul tells me. “It’s traditional
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December 10, 2018 Prince Of Salsa Takes On President Of Nicaragua With Protest Anthem 'Mordaza'
The U.S. just slapped heavier economic sanctions on the Nicaraguan government for its violent repression of protesters. Among the Nicaraguans denouncing that regime here in South Florida is the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Luis Enrique. Known as the “Prince of Salsa,” Luis Enrique today lives in Miami – where his new protest anthem “Mordaza” is a popular hit.
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December 03, 2018 Venezuelan-American Doctors 'Come Back To Our People' On U.S. Navy Hospital Ship
ABOARD THE USNS COMFORT | A few years ago, Dr. Juan Manuel Zambrano was a family physician in Mucuchíes, Venezuela, in the country’s mountainous western Andes region. That is, until the day he realized Venezuela’s medicine and medical equipment shortages made it all but impossible for him to practice anymore.
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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…