Miami

Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo finished testimony in the trial against him by Little Havana entrepreneurs Bill Fuller and Martin Pinilla.

Hialeah Mayor Steve Bovo defends the economic basis of the move, while a Brownsville community leader tells WLRN residents are upset by the potential plan to carve up the neighborhood.

Dr. Armen Henderson is the founder of Dade County Street Response, an organization that combines medical care with social justice. They treat those with barriers to healthcare and meet them where they are. He joins WLRN's Carlos Frías to talk about how and why he started doing this work.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó says he fled to Colombia because he faced arrest by the Maduro dictatorship — and then to Miami because he faced deportation.

Poet and educator Caridad Moro-Gronlier joins WLRN's Carlos Frías to talk about life and poetry. Moro-Gronlier is the author of the book "Tortillera," which examines how language, culture and place put expectations on sexuality and identity. She is presenting at multiple events for O, Miami's poetry festival this month.

Alberto Ibargüen, the CEO and President of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is retiring from his position after 18 years. He steered millions of dollars into art projects in South Florida that brought art into he hands of residents. He joins WLRN's Carlos Frías to talk about Miami’s ever-changing art scene — and what he hopes to see next.

COMMENTARY The U.S. legal system eyes English-language media like Fox, but not Spanish-language bullies like Alex Otaola — who's now running for Miami-Dade mayor.

A judge has handed down a 15-year prison sentence to Claudia Diaz, the former nurse of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, for taking bribes from a billionaire media mogul to green-light lucrative currency transactions when she served as Venezuela's national treasurer.

A youth arts development program, a young Artists Initiative (YAI), at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (ICA), is opening its annual spring show featuring the work of 28 Miami high school students.

Emilio Gonzalez, who served as Miami City Manager from 2018 to January 2020, was the first witness called in a federal trial involving a lawsuit brought by William Fuller and his business partner, Martin Pinilla.

In a new study ranking cities by people's friendliness and willingness to help, Miami places near the bottom in all categories. On the South Florida Roundup, we explored why the city regularly frequents the wrong end of these studies.

The latest cohort of the the Miami-based CLEO Institute gathers people who come from communities with shared environment-related struggles, in order to devise ways of navigating these issues.