Latin America Report

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October 02, 2015 Migration Maze: Deportees Inside Central America's Northern Triangle
El Edén in Honduras is no paradise for those on trek to the U.S. SAN PEDRO SULA | It seems the entire world is wrestling with immigration emergencies today. And lest you think the western hemisphere’s crisis is over, consider the look on Oscar Ortega’s face. He just got a WhatsApp message that made his eyes pop. Ortega directs the federal El Edén center in San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second-largest city. El Edén means “Eden.” But to the folks who end up there, it’s hardly the paradise they were
5 min
August 12, 2014 Canal Quarrel: How PortMiami's Future Is Tied To Tiny Panama
The original version of this report was published on May 13 2014. PortMiami has finally opened its new, billion-dollar tunnel. It’s the jewel of a $2 billion port makeover, which includes a major dredging project and skyscraper-size loading cranes for sending a lot more auto parts to Brazil and getting a lot more handbags from China. But the long-term success of that effort may depend to a large extent on whether a quarrel gets solved a thousand miles to the south. In Panama. Friday marks the
5 min
August 05, 2014 Should The Panama Canal Join Classes As Well As Oceans?
This story originally ran on May 7, 2014 Jorge Quijano has one of the coolest office views in the Americas: the Pacific port entrance to the Panama Canal. The panoramic vista seems to help Quijano, who heads the Panama Canal Authority, see the bigger picture. On the one hand, Quijano understands why Panama has run the canal much more effectively than the United States did. “When the United States built the canal, it was treated like a non-commercial utility, like a water filtration plant,”
5 min
May 02, 2014 Panama Election: Is President Martinelli Pulling A Fast One?
The Panama Canal is expanding, but is Panama's democracy shrinking? The country is holding a presidential election on Sunday, May 4 -- and there are growing concerns that right-wing President Martinelli is trying an end run around the constitution. Panamanian presidents are banned from holding consecutive terms in office. But Martinelli's critics say he's attempting to do that indirectly by running his wife, Marta Linares, as his party's vice presidential candidate. Should the party's
2 min
April 30, 2014 Why Miami's Tech Scene Shouldn't Try To Compete With Silicon Valley
A lot of people have been throwing a lot of cold water lately on the notion of Miami as a high-tech “Silicon Beach.” Even Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine this year called it “the dumbest idea in the world.” Levine’s remark wasn’t all that bright, either. But on the eve of Miami’s first annual eMerge Americas conference – the week-long event starts Friday at various sites throughout the county and is expected to draw more than 3,000 visitors – it’s actually not a dumb idea to take two steps back
4 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…