Latin America Report

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Latin America Report episodes

November 26, 2018 Brazil Brawl: More Cuban Doctors May Bolt To Florida As Bolsonaro And Havana Feud
This month Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro took a hard line against communist Cuba. The right-wing congressman said when he becomes President in January, he’ll take aim at a program that pays thousands of Cuban doctors to work in Brazil.
5 min
November 20, 2018 Found In Translation: Latin America's Best-Selling 'Malamor' Trilogy Debuts In English
José Ignacio Valenzuela is one of Latin America’s most popular authors. His “Malamor” trilogy is among the best-selling young adult novels in the Spanish-speaking world today. The trilogy’s first part – “To the End of the World” – was just translated into English. Valenzuela was born in Chile and often goes by the nickname “Chascas.” He now lives here in Palmetto Bay with his husband – and he sat down with WLRN’s Tim Padgett to talk about his romantic, magical-realist fantasy novels and their
5 min
November 12, 2018 Tango War: Why America Had To Win Latin America To Win World War II
Would America have won World War II if hadn’t won Latin America over to its side? Veteran foreign correspondent Mary Jo McConahay answers that question in her new book, “The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II.”
5 min
October 22, 2018 Bolsonaro, 'The Donald Trump Of Brazil,' Divides Women Before Presidential Vote
Earlier this month, thousands of Brazilian expats converged on downtown Miami to vote in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election. It wasn’t hard to figure out who their favorite candidate was. Most erupted in cheers when a truck passed the polling station with an electronic billboard flashing the picture of right-wing Congressman Jair Bolsonaro.
8 min
October 16, 2018 Costa Rica Prez Now FIU Prof – And Worried About Democracy's Future In The Americas
5 min
October 08, 2018 'Mexicanes' Message: Miami Rarely Thinks About Mexico – But That's Got To Change
Mexico was in the news a lot last week. It hailed a new trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada to replace NAFTA – and President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador and President Trump even spoke by phone about ways to improve Mexico’s economic development in order to reduce illegal immigration. “We estimate joint investments of more than $30 billion toward that effort,” López Obrador said then in Mexico City. It was a major break from the animosity that’s existed between Mexico and the U.S.
5 min
September 24, 2018 New Study Backs Claims Central Americans Flee Violence More Than Poverty
Central America is now the largest source of undocumented migration across the U.S. southern border. The U.S. government has ramped up deportations of Central Americans to deter people from coming. In June, Vice President Mike Pence even traveled to Guatemala to warn Central Americans: "Come to the U.S. legally or don't come at all." And yet they keep coming. A new study by researchers at Vanderbilt University says that’s because the U.S. is in denial about the real reason Central Americans
5 min
September 18, 2018 Will Anti-Trump Puerto Ricans Storm Florida's Polls In November, Or Is It Hype?
President Trump astonished people across the country last week when he denied 3,000 Puerto Ricans died as a result of Hurricane Maria. He insisted (falsely) that Democrats inflated the death toll to make him “look bad.” For Ernesto Morales, Trump’s tweets exacerbated his awful memories of the storm, which demolished Puerto Rico a year ago this Thursday.
8 min
September 10, 2018 Why U.S. Invasion Of Venezuela Is Still A Hot Topic – But Will Likely Never Happen
Over the weekend the New York Times created hemispheric buzz. It reported that U.S. officials talked privately this past year with rebellious Venezuelan military officers. Those officers wanted U.S. help to overthrow Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolás Maduro. Apparently nothing came of the talks; the Trump Administration declined to help the rogue militares . But the Times story was more evidence that President Trump is exploring unusually strong action to topple Maduro. At the White House
5 min
September 03, 2018 Earthquakes, Poverty And Moun Fou: A UM Prof Builds Mental Health In Haiti
Haiti’s misfortunes – extreme poverty, political crises, natural disasters – are more than just material. They’ve also led to mental health issues. And until recently those were rarely adequately addressed in Haiti. That’s changed – and Guerda Nicolas is a big reason why. Nicolas is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami’s School of Education and Human Development, and the American Psychological Association just awarded her its international humanitarian award for her work
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…