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Latin America Report episodes

April 10, 2018 They're Having A Corruption Summit In South America. South Florida Should Tune In.
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned as president of Peru in March because of a corruption scandal – just a month before he was supposed to host the Summit of the Americas this week in Lima. But here’s the kicker: This time the theme of that gathering of the hemisphere’s heads of state is ... corruption.
5 min
April 03, 2018 Aid Effort For Desperate Venezuelans Pivots From Caracas To Cúcuta
At a warehouse near Miami International Airport, Adelys Ferro is unpacking boxes and making a checklist of donated medicines for Venezuelans.
5 min
March 27, 2018 'The Corporation' Tells The Other Dark Bay Of Pigs Story: The Cuban-American Mob
The Bay of Pigs is one of the darkest episodes of Cuban-American history. But that failed 1961 attempt by Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro had another dark result. Some of its resentful veterans came back to the U.S. to form a violent Cuban-American mafia called The Corporation.
5 min
March 12, 2018 Hurricane-Ravaged U.S. Virgin Islands See Tourists Return; Most Hotel Rooms Still Down
Two Category 5 hurricanes, Irma and Maria, ravaged the Caribbean within two weeks of each other last September. Afterward, the world's attention fell largely on the U.S. island territory of Puerto Rico. But just as badly hit was the American territory next door: the U.S. Virgin Islands, including St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix. The U.S. Virgin Islands' economy and its 103,000 residents depend on tourism. But some top resorts won't reopen until next year. Beverly Nicholson-Doty is the U.S.
5 min
March 06, 2018 Mom To The Multitudes: This Immigrant Advocate Is The Guardian Of 1,250 Kids
On a hot Sunday afternoon, about 20 kids are saying grace. It’s almost lunch time, and the smell of corn tamales wafts throughout the patio of Nora Sandigo’s home in West Kendall.
5 min
February 26, 2018 Is Venezuela's Petro A CryptoMilestone For Digital Currency – Or A CryptoMillstone?
Last week Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said his country had found “the perfect kryptonite to defeat Superman!” By Superman he meant the U.S. And by kryptonite he meant cryptocurrency – el petro . The petro is the cryptocurrency Venezuela recently created to raise desperately needed cash as it sinks deeper into the world’s worst economic collapse today. Maduro touts the petro as a way around U.S. financial sanctions that prevent his authoritarian socialist regime from raising money in bond
5 min
February 20, 2018 Disaster Data: Journalist's New App Sheds Light On Venezuela's Economic Catastrophe
Every day thousands of Venezuelans are fleeing their country to escape the worst economic collapse in the world today. Many have come to South Florida. Venezuela’s GDP is sinking so deep, and its hyperinflation is rising so fast, it’s hard to keep track of exchange rates, food prices, minimum wages, foreign reserves and other critical economic indicators. And the authoritarian socialist regime is trying to keep a lot of that embarrassing data hidden. But new computer and Smartphone apps are
5 min
February 06, 2018 ¡Oye, Gringo! Shouldn't You Fix Your Accent In Spanish – Especially In South Florida?
Sometimes an accent can render a language sexy. Even elegant.
5 min
January 30, 2018 Elocution Solution: More Immigrants Hope To Erase Their Accents In The Trump Era
Like so many recently arrived immigrants in South Florida, Nykoll Hernandez is proud of the college education she’s getting here – and just as proud to tell you what she’s studying at Broward College. “I’m doing my major in hospitality and tourism management,” she says. Except, “major” was not what came out of Hernandez’s mouth. What she said instead was “mayor.” In other words, she uttered one of the most common accent mistakes any native Spanish speaker makes in English: turning the j into a y
8 min
January 23, 2018 Dreamer Drama: New Book Captures DACA Struggle – And Its South Florida Faces
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…