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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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.
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The Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board on Tuesday approved a proposed luxury condominium building that would go up behind the historic Sagamore Hotel on Collins Avenue.
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Robert Nudel joined hundreds of people Monday night at an emotional rally in Aventura in support of Israel following this weekend’s surprise attack by Hamas militants. He lost a relative in Israel in the weekend violence. "This has nothing to do with being Jewish. It’s being human,” he told WLRN.
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Preservationists hope the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board will reject an almost 200-foot tower that would go behind the Sagamore Hotel.
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For South Florida's Peacemakers, stopping the shootings begins with helping people with daily needs — from diapers and groceries to medical care.
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Town commissioners voted 3 to 2 in favor of conditionally requiring the developer of the former Champlain Towers South property to move the loading dock away from the memorial space.
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The majority of Surfside commissioners voted not to censure Mayor Shlomo Danzinger for making racial insults and sexist remarks directed at Commissioner Nelly Velasquez.
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Plans to include garbage collection and a loading dock on the same street as a proposed memorial site for the 98 people killed in the collapse of the Champlain Towers South building have angered and outraged relatives of some of the victims, along with elected town officials.
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The Coalition of Immokalee Workers implores more retailers, especially Publix, to join their program aimed at protecting workers from developing heat illness.
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Medicaid enrollees in Florida face long wait times to get through to call centers for help reapplying — especially Spanish speakers. With hundreds of thousands of people removed from the state's Medicaid rolls since April — and many of them still eligible for the program — advocates fear a 'fiasco.'