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Anselm Gibbs/APThe country finds itself entangled in the net of a geopolitical face-off between the United States and Venezuela. Only about seven miles separate Trinidad and Venezuela at their closest point. Dozens of fishermen worry that their boat could be mistaken for a drug-smuggling vessel. -
WAQI AMThree years after Democrat-led investors bought two prominent Miami stations, critics say the plan to steer Spanish-language radio in a more moderate, professional direction has run aground. The buyers point to rough local media economics — and politics.
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The Trump administration ended protections Monday for migrants from Honduras and Nicaragua that shielded them from deportation and allowed them to work, its latest effort to strip privileges from migrants since President Donald Trump returned to office. -
The president of one of Lima's largest parent-teacher associations says at least 1,000 schools in the Peruvian capital are being extorted and that most are caving into the demands of the gangs. -
Dr. Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, a congresswoman and physician, ran unopposed after her party formed a coalition aimed at ousting the South American country’s current leader following a May election with no clear winner. -
COMMENTARY By likening Trump's immigrant-demonization crusade to Lincoln's abolition of slavery, Miami U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar risks discrediting her own Lincolnesque immigration reform efforts. -
Information vacuums are common in Táchira, a Venezuelan state on the border with Colombia. In 11 of its 29 municipalities, there are not enough media outlets providing local information, according to the Atlas of Silence by the Venezuelan Press and Society Institute. -
South Florida immigration attorney Vanessa Joseph says Haitian immigrants are worried and fearful they may be forced to leave the U.S. after the Trump administration announced last week it’s terminating Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for 500,000 Haitians in early September. -
A federal judge in New York has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal status for more than 500,000 Haitians who are already in the United States. -
After a Nicaraguan human rights activist who had fled to Costa Rica was killed, concern has grown that the Ortega government may be targeting its enemies abroad. -
During World War II, the United States arrested hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants from Latin America and deported them to the U.S. where they lived in camps. -
The Miami-based Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which oversees Radio and TV Martí and the Martí Noticias website, was spared from layoffs at Voice of America and the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
