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Back in April, Nicaragua erupted in protests calling for the ouster of President Daniel Ortega – who’s ruled the poor Central American country for 24 of…

Most of the news from Venezuela in recent days is not encouraging for the restoration of democracy there. Late last week President Nicolás Maduro's regime…

It’s been less than a month since the visitor visas for Cubans coming to the U.S. were scaled down. A lot.They used to be good for five years and you…

By TIM PADGETTAPRIL 22 2019Last week, National Security Advisor John Bolton came to Miami to announce President Trump is unleashing a tool of the Cuban…

Three years ago, Venezuelan doctor Marco Salmeron seemed to have a good case for asylum in the U.S. Salmeron had fled Venezuela because prosecutors there…

It’s been a week since Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó called for the overthrow of authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro. That effort failed…

Most of the stories about Central American migrant children coming to the U.S. in recent years have been sad ones. That’s especially true of Guatemalan…

Miami is often called the capital of Latin America. So when 20 Democratic presidential candidates gathered for debates in Miami last week, WLRN’s Americas…

In Paris last week, Egan Bernal became the first Colombian – and the first Latin American – to ever win the Super Bowl of cycling: the Tour de France. At…

In the past year, Cuba’s communist government has finally granted its citizens mobile internet access and legalized WiFi in their homes and businesses.…

By Tim PadgettLast week Brazilian soldiers were working to put out this year’s record number of fires in the Amazon rainforest. The irony is that they…

Are Venezuela and Colombia headed for war? Believe it or not, that's the big worry in South America right now.Colombia ended its long civil war three…

Over the weekend Haitians again took to the streets of Port-au-Prince to demand the ouster of President Jovenel Moïse. They've been protesting for a year…

Last month a big anniversary in the western hemisphere went largely unnoticed in the U.S.Havana – one of the oldest capitals in the Americas – celebrated…

It's hard to wrap your arms around everything that happened 2019 in Latin America and the Caribbean. It's even harder to find any good news — from the…

In 2012, the Presidents of Venezuela and Iran met at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. The bromance between Hugo Chávez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alarmed…

Since taking office, President Trump has worked to gain more Latino support in Florida by casting his rival Democrats as socialists – like the regimes in…

Florida's 27th Congressional District has miles of coastline. The district stretches from near Black Pointe Marina in south Miami-Dade County to the…

When the CEO of movie theater chain CMX Cinemas moved to Miami in October, he says the immigration officer at Miami International Airport did a double…

The second largest home insurance company in Florida would have asked state regulators to raise premiums by 25 percent if it could have asked for a hike…