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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Florida's 15-week abortion ban, followed by a six-week limit, have led South Florida residents to cross state lines seeking the procedure. An abortion provider in Massachusetts explains the range of impacts of these laws on patients and on doctors. -
A year since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel, roughly 1,100 people gathered at Temple Beth Sholom on Miami Beach to remember the victims, call for the release of the remaining hostages and discuss hope for a better new Jewish year of 5785. -
The pier will be closed on Oct. 8 and 9 for the gate removal. As part of the city's plan to maintain art in public places, the gate will get some care for corrosion. -
A new ad campaign from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation aims to encourage testing and treatment in Florida and across the U.S. That includes billboards in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, showing two elderly people sharing a kiss with the caption: “STDs are timeless.”
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Just weeks remain before Election Day, leading campaigns for and against expanding abortion rights in Florida are ramping up their messaging, from TV ads to chatting in person, about Amendment 4. They aim to motivate voters enough to cast their ballots. -
The daughter of a Broward Health pharmacy technician who scored two coveted tickets to see Taylor Swift in October at the Hard Rock Stadium, decided to give them to a pediatric oncology patient from Coral Springs.
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A poll of newly naturalized U.S. citizens in Florida found slightly more than half, 53%, plan to vote for Democrat Kamala Harris, while about 40% said they will support Republican Donald Trump. -
A new ad campaign from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation aims to encourage testing and treatment in Florida and across the U.S. That includes billboards in Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
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Federal investigators say they continue working to determine what caused the catastrophic partial collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside that killed 98 people in June 2021. -
Miami Beach Commissioners agreed to consider renovation costs and rehabbing the theater with Live Nation. That’s the entertainment company that operates the Fillmore. -
Miami Beach commissioners agreed to preserve the South Shore Community Center. They also agreed to upgrade and improve the Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater, with $29 million set aside, rather than tear it down for a new performance space. -
A synthetic opioid called isotonitazene or ISO is far more potent and deadly than fentanyl, and a standard amount of Narcan won't overturn an overdose. Police are finding it pressed into pills, marketed as oxycodone, for instance, here in South Florida.
