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August 27, 2018 As Borders Tighten, Will Desperate Refugees Soon Face No Escape From Venezuela?
Last week José Molleja became one of the countless Venezuelans stranded on the border between Colombia and Ecuador. The 22-year-old Venezuelan can’t find enough work to live in crisis-torn Venezuela. So he spent a week on a bus getting from Caracas to join relatives who’d already emigrated to Ecuador. But when Molleja arrived he was stunned. Before, Ecuador had only asked Venezuelans to show a photo ID to enter the country. Now the country was suddenly making them present passports.
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August 21, 2018 Will Desperation Make Venezuelans More Violently Radical – Here And There?
Critics joke that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro blames the U.S. – especially his Venezuelan foes living in the U.S. – whenever he stubs his toe. And most of the world ignores his leftist scapegoating. But this month the world is wondering, cautiously, if Maduro might have a case, at least when it comes to some Venezuelans residing here.
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August 13, 2018 Colombia, Latin America See Summer Of Surge For Women In Politics – And Beyond?
Last week, the new President of Colombia, Iván Duque, swore in his vice president, Marta Lucía Ramírez. She is Colombia’s first female vice president.
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August 06, 2018 New UMiami Research Shows How Fresh Water Stokes Caribbean Hurricanes
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July 24, 2018 UMiami Research Aids Understanding Of How Immigration Traumas Make Kids Sick
Florida Congresswoman Lois Frankel recently toured the U.S. southern border, talking to undocumented parents and children separated by President Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy. During a forum this month at the Guatemalan-Maya Center in Lake Worth, Frankel, a Democrat from West Palm Beach, heard how that border policy has begun to touch the Florida peninsula. Frankel interviewed a woman from Guatemala whose cousin was one of the migrants stopped at the border this year and separated
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July 16, 2018 Venezuelans To Trump: If Maduro Regime Evil Enough To Invade, Then Give More U.S. Visas
This month the big topic of discussion about Venezuela isn’t focused on its plummeting oil output or food shortages or economic collapse. It’s about invasion. According to reports, last year President Trump told top aides he wanted to order a military invasion of Venezuela. Those aides talked him out of it, of course. But the reports have Venezuelans like 19-year-old Camila Duarte feeling confused – and irritated.
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July 09, 2018 Miami-Dade School Board Member: Immigrants' Fear Of Deportation Could Lead To Inaccurate Census
The last time the federal government asked about citizenship status on the U.S. census was 1950. Now federal officials plan to do it again in 2020.
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July 02, 2018 Latin American Presidential Library Center Looks Set For...Fort Lauderdale?
The burn scars on Jaime Paz Zamora’s face and body are the most vivid reminders of why many consider him a hero of Latin American democracy. In 1980, Paz was a vice presidential candidate in Bolivia, campaigning in an election meant to restore democratic rule after decades of military dictatorship. One day, the small plane carrying Paz and his staff crashed after takeoff. Everyone on board was killed – except Paz. Authorities later called it an assassination attempt by military leaders.
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June 25, 2018 Even If Housing Aid Ends This Week, Puerto Rican Evacuees Say They Won't Go Back
Ariana Colón’s 1-year-old son Sebastian shows off his first word – “ Mamá ” – as she speaks with me over the phone from the hotel room in Kissimmee, Florida, where they’ve been living this year. Along with Sebastian’s father, they arrived there shortly after Hurricane Maria devastated their home island, the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, last September. The family has benefited from a federal program for disaster victims called Transitional Sheltering Assistance. It pays their hotel tab while
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June 18, 2018 Nicaraguan Protesters Spur Miami, Washington In Drive To Oust Ortega
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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…