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November 15, 2016 'Running Through History': Havana Marathon Attracts U.S. Runners – And Business
Last month they ran the Key Biscayne Half Marathon – with a big new prize. “They said, 'You’re gonna go to Cuba,'" says Elliott Mason, who won the race and gets a paid trip to run in the Havana Marathon this Sunday. “I had no idea that Havana had a marathon.” But like a growing number of U.S. runners, now that he knows, he wants to get to the starting line.
5 min
November 01, 2016 Could Miami be the 'Capitol of Konpa?' Looks that way in 2016
Konpa music has dominated the Haitian music industry for decades. But while the genre’s roots are firmly in Haiti, today its leading bands are often not. This year, the top two albums came from bands right here in Miami, which many now consider the “capitol of konpa.”
6 min
October 25, 2016 Boricua Boom: Can Puerto Ricans Become The New Cubans Of South Florida Politics?
Before Wynwood was the heart of hipster Miami, it was a Puerto Rican enclave. So Puerto Rican community leaders and business owners recently gathered there at Jimmy'z Kitchen for a campaign fundraiser.
5 min
October 18, 2016 Boricua Boom: Will Puerto Ricans Change South Florida's Latino Landscape?
On Labor Day there was a good Puerto Rican party on Hollywood Beach – classic Willie Colón salsa music playing on the boom box – hosted by a South Florida group called Boricuas Realengos. Boricua means Puerto Rican, and so the group’s name translates to “Far-Flung Puerto Ricans.”
5 min
October 10, 2016 Haiti Again Faces 'Pure Devastation.' But Will Recovery Be Different This Time?
Some of Hurricane Matthew's most gut-wrenching stories are coming out of the coastal city of Jérémie on Haiti's southwest peninsula – the region hardest hit.
5 min
October 03, 2016 Haitian Expats, Long Dissed By Haiti, Set To Play Key Role In Sunday's Election
Back in July, State Department spokesman John Kirby confirmed the U.S. had “suspended its assistance toward completion of the presidential electoral process” in Haiti. Which means: Uncle Sam is not helping to pay for the presidential election being held in Haiti this coming Sunday. Nor will it help with the likely run-off election scheduled for January. Other international donors, like Canada, have also cut off election aid. Simply put, they’re fed up with Haiti’s political leaders. “All those
5 min
September 26, 2016 Miami Professor Helps Answer Why Latin American Journalists Are So Threatened
In June, Mexican freelance reporter Zamira Esther Bautista was gunned down by a group of hit men at her home in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico. Her killing has yet to be solved; no one has been arrested. It was the most recent murder of a journalist in Mexico – the eighth there this year. Across Latin America, 23 journalists have been murdered. That’s a big reason media rights groups this month are urging the U.N. to create a special representative for journalists’ protection. “Journalists are under
5 min
September 20, 2016 Krome Portraits Aim To Humanize Immigrants In A Season Of Demonization
Meet Jose Alvarez. Or as he’ll tell you when you’re introduced: “My name is Jose Alvarez, D.O.P.A.”
5 min
September 13, 2016 Turning Ireland's 'Love Affair' With Latin America Into Cross-Atlantic Ties
The Irish aren’t entirely strangers to Latin America and the Caribbean. Saint Patrick’s Battalion fought for Mexico in the 1800s. Irish tycoon Denis O’Brien owns Digicel, one of the Caribbean’s largest cell phone companies. But Ireland’s new government has set out a specific agenda for engaging Latin America that’s unusual for a European country outside Spain and Portugal. And Miami figures prominently in that strategy. Shane Stephens, Ireland’s consul general for the Southeast U.S., based in
5 min
September 06, 2016 U.S. Airlines Fly High In Cuba, But The Island's Economy Is Badly Grounded
There was a lot of celebration – and not a little hype – last week when JetBlue took the first U.S. commercial flight into Cuba in more than 50 years. It was another big step in the normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations. But beneath all the airborne cheering is the grim reality that Cuba’s economic wings have been all but clipped.
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…