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Two groups, Keep Them Honest and a group of "Cubans with I-220A," have launched billboard ad campaigns in South Florida, targeting Republican Cuban American politicians Maria Elvira Salazar, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Carlos Gimenez -
Alessandra Tarantino/APThe pope’s maternal grandparents, both of whom are described as Black or mulatto in various historical records, lived in the city’s 7th Ward, an area that is traditionally Catholic and a melting pot of people with African, Caribbean and European roots.
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Weekend flights by U.S. immigration authorities set off a frantic scramble among terrified families after hundreds of immigrants disappeared from the government's online locator for detainees. -
Jhoan Bastidas is just starting to make sense of it all. How he is back in the once-prosperous hometown in Venezuela that he left as a teenager. -
The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday. Flights were in the air at the time of the ruling. -
Several local groups in Miami joined others nationwide in demanding the release of a pro-Palestinian activist who helped lead protests against Israel at Columbia University. Federal immigration authorities took the graduate student into custody March 8 to deport him for for his role in campus demonstrations. -
The massive blackout Friday is the fourth in the last six months during a severe economic crisis affecting the Caribbean country. The director of electricity at Cuba's Ministry of Energy and Mines says power was already being generated Saturday to support vital services such as hospitals. -
Despite the many unknowns about its true size or sophistication in the United States, Tren de Aragua has emerged as a real source of concern for law enforcement in the last couple of years. -
A federal judge barred the Trump administration Saturday from carrying out deportations under a sweeping 18th century law that the president invoked hours earlier to speed removal of Venezuelan gang members from the United States. -
The government-run media radio station first began broadcasting in 1985. Later, TV Martí, along with a digital website, were launched to beam Spanish-language news into Cuba. -
Distraught families from across the country have already started reaching out about clothing items they say they recognize. -
President Trump's special envoy announced Venezuelan Dictator-President Nicolás Maduro will resume ferrying deportees back to Venezuela — which experts say indicates an oil deal is still likely, and which Venezuelans in the U.S. say makes them more vulnerable.
