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Stimulus payments are going out. Small businesses have applied for emergency loans. There is more than $2 trillion the federal government has OK'd to help…

This article was originally published in October and has been updated.Uruguayans love it when you tell them what a resort paradise Punta del Este is. Or…

The Panama Canal is expanding, but is Panama's democracy shrinking? The country is holding a presidential election on Sunday, May 4 -- and there are…

This story originally ran on May 7, 2014 Jorge Quijano has one of the coolest office views in the Americas: the Pacific port entrance to the Panama Canal.…

Part 2 of Cuba OnlineSome people visit Cuba to drink up rum mojitos. Peter Zimble goes there to dream up web services.“The woman who runs the apartment…

This story first aired on December 14, 2015. These days, if you’re sitting on a South Florida beach and someone shouts, “Shark attack!” it’s probably got…

These days the Caribbean seems better known for debt ruin than for dark rum.The region – South Florida’s next-door neighbor – is home to some of the…

Costa Rica isn’t widely known for its movies. But three years ago, a deadpan comedy called “Por las Plumas,” or “All About the Feathers,” got shown at…

HAVANA - In his historic speech from Havana last week, President Obama called for a number of changes in Cuba. More human rights. More economic reform.But…

Few entrepreneurs straddle the Florida Straits as masterfully as Hugo Cancio.Cancio arrived in Miami from Cuba 36 years ago during the Marielboatlift.…

These days, Venezuela’s street soundtrack isn’t salsa or joropo. It’s a loop of anti-government chants and blasts of teargas cannisters.It’s clashes…

The bad blood between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Mexico continues – and lately it has involved Miami.Last week Trump took offense…

Puerto Rico’s economic crisis has gotten deeper this summer. This month the U.S. commonwealth defaulted on $1 billion of debt – and the U.S. Congress…

Fifer Garbesi is creating a virtual Cuban rave.She’s making a virtual reality film about the Cuban electronic music scene which so impressed her when she…

My mother says I’m American.I was born in Miami, Florida, so she is technically correct. But like many other Latin Americans who grew in up the United…

The Irish aren’t entirely strangers to Latin America and the Caribbean.Saint Patrick’s Battalion fought for Mexico in the 1800s. Irish tycoon Denis…

Meet Jose Alvarez. Or as he’ll tell you when you’re introduced:“My name is Jose Alvarez, D.O.P.A.”D.O.P.A. isn't a fancy degree. It stands for his real…

In June, Mexican freelance reporter Zamira Esther Bautista was gunned down by a group of hit men at her home in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico.Her killing has…

Some of Hurricane Matthew's most gut-wrenching stories are coming out of the coastal city of Jérémie on Haiti's southwest peninsula – the region hardest…

Next month marks the second anniversary of normalized relations between the U.S. and Cuba – and things couldn’t look more uncertain. President-elect…