Verónica Zaragovia
Health Care ReporterVerónica Zaragovia was born in Cali, Colombia, and grew up in South Florida. She’s been a lifelong WLRN listener and is proud to cover health care, as well as Surfside and Miami Beach politics for the station.
Verónica has a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master's degree in journalism. For many years, Veronica lived out of a suitcase (or two) in New York City, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, D.C., San Antonio and Austin, where she worked as the statehouse and health care reporter with NPR member station KUT.
In 2016, she received a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship and moved to Germany’s capital city of Berlin where she lived for several years, working as a freelance reporter and radio instructor to American college students at the Center for International Educational Exchange (CIEE). In between that time, she also spent six months in Colombia, reporting on the peace treaty between the Colombian government and the former FARC guerrilla group, with the support of a grant from the Pulitzer Center.
Verónica speaks English and Spanish fluently and can converse in French, German and Hebrew. She loves warm weather and friendly, diverse people, and that’s why Miami will always be home.
Contact Verónica at vzaragovia@wlrnnews.org
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Singer, dancer and actress Montana Tucker, from Boca Raton, is back in South Florida to help a Jewish social services nonprofit raise funds for trauma counseling on March 21. The descendant of Auschwitz survivors talked to WLRN about using her social media influence to fight hate.
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Because music helps people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia bring out memories, some Jews in South Florida are finding Yiddish songs effective.
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After three consecutive years of spring break violence, Miami Beach officials are implementing monthlong security measures aimed at curbing the chaos, including parking restrictions for non-residents and closing sidewalk cafes on busy weekends.
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Because Florida has chosen not to extend Medicaid eligibility to more uninsured adults, entrepreneurs and health equity advocates are coming up with solutions for those facing medical bills they cannot afford.
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Despite a 2000 law aiming to prevent the abandonment of newborn babies, a dead infant was found in a dumpster in Hollywood. Critics urge lawmakers to help mothers more.
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Miami-Dade County has the nation's highest prevalence of Alzheimer's. But with monthly memory care costs in Florida averaging at more than $8,000 per month, one family talks about the difficult choices to come.
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Emilie Ashbes overcame her drug addiction and is now helping others do the same. The work of IDEA is especially critical in Miami-Dade, which has the nation’s highest HIV infection rate, with dirty syringes, in part, to blame.
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Voters in Hialeah, Homestead, Miami and Miami Beach went to the polls Tuesday with a slate of municipal candidates to choose from. In Surfside, voters chose among five charter amendments.
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The federal government has set the enrollment period for Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, insurance plans on healthcare.gov from Nov. 1, 2023 to Jan. 15, 2024.
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In the CDC's Vital Signs report, the agency suggests more than double the number of health workers reported harassment at work in 2022 than in 2018, including threats, bullying and verbal abuse from patients and co-workers.
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To overcome the challenges Nicaraguans face in accessing the Biden administration's humanitarian parole program, a U.S. network of grassroots volunteers has emerged, including here in South Florida.
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Para superar las dificultades que enfrentan los nicaragüenses para acceder al programa del proceso probatorio de la administración de Biden, surgió una red estadounidense de voluntarios, incluso aquí, en el sur de la Florida.