Daniel Rivero
Investigative ReporterDaniel Rivero is part of WLRN's new investigative reporting team. Before joining WLRN, he was an investigative reporter and producer on the television series "The Naked Truth," and a digital reporter for Fusion.
His work has won honors of the Murrow Awards, Sunshine State Awards and Green Eyeshade Awards. He has also been nominated for a Livingston Award and a GLAAD Award on reporting on the background of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's tenure as Attorney General of Oklahoma and on the Orlando nightclub shooting, respectively.
Daniel was born on the outskirts of Washington D.C. to Cuban parents, and moved to Miami full time twenty years ago. He learned to walk with a wiffle ball bat and has been a skateboarder since the age of ten.
He can be reached at drivero@wlrnnews.org
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For many Cuban-Americans, winning a case in court is not the point. The point is that Cuban leadership, most importantly Raúl Castro, feel pressured to step down after the indictment has been made public. -
The 2020 Super Bowl in Miami Gardens generated about 80,000 pounds of trash. With seven games set to take place at the Hard Rock Stadium in the 2026 FIFA World Cup next month, at a time when Miami-Dade is already dealing with a trash crisis, environmentalists want to try to minimize the impact. -
With his new congressional maps heavily favoring Republicans, Gov. Ron DeSantis is unilaterally declaring unconstitutional the 2010 "Fair Districts" amendment that state voters overwhelmingly approved, say statewide and national Democrats, along with the Miami attorney who got the amendment on the ballot. -
After heated debate by residents and first responders, Mayor Eileen Higgins asked to defer the decision about whether to put the item on the ballot until the next meeting, on May 14. -
It’s the latest move in the war the state has been waging for years against sociology as a discipline. -
Since a waste-to-energy facility in Doral burned down in 2023, Miami-Dade has been shipping much of its trash north. It’s an expensive short-term fix for taxpayers as the county struggles to find a local solution. And in St. Lucie County, where the trash is put into trains to be shipped to Okeechobee County, it has created quite a stink. -
Nicole Tallman said her goal as Poet Laureate is to do more collaborative poetry projects with county residents, and also find ways to merge poetry with the county’s thriving music scene. -
The dramatic move is a culmination of the state’s years-long battle over sociology as a discipline, and mere months after the state controversially required professors to use a new textbook that was in large part edited by state officials.
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The Cuban government announced that Cuban nationals living abroad can invest in and own private businesses on the island. But it laid bare a reality that many refuse to acknowledge: the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba creates layers of restrictions for Cubans in Florida, even if they were “crazy” enough to want to invest in their nation of birth. -
Groups of people from North America, Latin America and Europe will converge in Havana this Saturday in order to deliver over 20 tons of humanitarian aid to the Cuban people, amid the worsening social and economic crisis gripping the island. Several organizers of the convoy have ties to the Cuban government. But few would argue that the humanitarian situation on the island is not dire. -
Dozens of students and faculty members protested Florida International University’s immigration policies at an event with President Jeannette Nuñez on Friday. Protesters said they were also frustrated after a leaked group chat showed campus Republicans advocating for killing Black people. -
Hialeah, a majority-Cuban city of 235,000, sees the stars aligned for a generation-defining moment. The clear conduit for that change, as they see it: President Trump. But his efforts to maximize pressure on Cuba has deepened a humanitarian crisis, dividing opinion even among residents.
