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- When Venezuelan teachers abandon low-pay jobs, parents are forced to become the teachers
Tuesday - 06/26/2018 - 02:26 PMMoraima de Ramirez started teaching math and physics earlier this year at a Seventh Day Adventist school on the outskirts of Caracas called Alejandro Oropeza Castillo Institute. She thought twice … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Here's why Venezuelan leader Maduro won't push his old rival out of the regime
Friday - 06/22/2018 - 04:53 PMVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro appointed a longtime rival, Diosdado Cabello, chief of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) this week in a move that seemed to bring the two men closer … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Hands up, utensils down.' Who will be named Caribbean top chef?
Thursday - 06/21/2018 - 06:00 AMJamaica is known for sand, sun and sea. But could its cuisine soon be a tourism draw? That's what the island's top chef and tourism officials are hoping after arriving … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Venezuela's currency is worth so little that artisans are making purses out it
Wednesday - 06/20/2018 - 08:17 AMVenezuela’s currency has become so worthless that it makes more sense to turn colorful bolivar bills into a purse than to spend them on a purse — or anything else.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Federal court overturns Marine general’s Guantánamo war court contempt conviction
Monday - 06/18/2018 - 09:18 PMA federal judge on Monday overturned the contempt conviction of the Marine general in charge of Guantánamo's war court defense teams, ruling that the military judge overstepped his role. U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 17 killed in stampede after brawl at crowded Caracas club
Saturday - 06/16/2018 - 06:36 PMVenezuela's government says 17 people were killed Saturday after a nightclub brawl in the capital led to a stampede. … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S. Congress to U.N.: What are you doing to compensate Haiti's cholera victims?
Friday - 06/15/2018 - 06:20 PMMore than 100 members of Congress are sounding the alarm over Haiti's deadly cholera epidemic and the victims of the waterborne disease who are still awaiting compensation from the United … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'They don't care if I die of hunger in Venezuela.' Woman and family face deportation.
Thursday - 06/14/2018 - 09:30 PMMilagros Yanes sees the time coming when she will have to board an airplane and leave behind everything she accomplished during her 20 years in the United States: A university … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump is deporting Venezuelans to dictator Nicolás Maduro’s hell. This is why.
Thursday - 06/14/2018 - 02:49 PMPresident Donald Trump’s deportation machine isn’t moved by dictatorship, chavismo, castrismo, or communism’s hold on our hemisphere. In Trump’s anti-Hispanic political playbook, no one’s safe from Draconian “zero tolerance” enforcement … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - An education by fire: Nicaraguan medical student turned activist comes of age during deadly protests
Wednesday - 06/13/2018 - 12:27 PMA medical student visiting Miami to raise awareness of the ongoing student-led street battles occurring in his native Nicaragua recalls putting his education to test as violence escalates in Managua.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Amid call to reunite separated families, a plea to fix TPS for Haitians and others
Friday - 06/22/2018 - 07:01 PMHaitian and immigrant advocates in Miami on Friday joined the rising call to reunite undocumented parents separated from their children at the border, and they asked the U.S. Congress and … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'My dream is to see my girl walk.' Cuban girl who lost her legs arrives in Miami full of hope
Friday - 06/22/2018 - 10:59 AMWhen she was 3 months old, Alexa Prieto was admitted to the pediatric hospital in the Marianao section of Havana with a fever and diarrhea. Two days later, she contracted … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Florida Sen. Marco Rubio joins call for investigation into DEA office in Haiti
Wednesday - 06/20/2018 - 10:37 AMFlorida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has joined the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in its call for an investigation into the Drug Enforcement Administration's Haiti office following allegations of … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Blue is the new orange as Guantánamo preps for new prisoners, maybe ISIS fighters
Wednesday - 06/20/2018 - 05:00 AMEarlier this month, in a drill shrouded in secrecy, prison guards practiced for something that hasn't actually happened at Guantánamo in a decade. They rehearsed receiving a new war-on-terror detainee.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 17 killed in stampede after brawl at crowded Caracas club
Saturday - 06/16/2018 - 06:36 PMVenezuela's government says 17 people were killed Saturday after a nightclub brawl in the capital led to a stampede. … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Reaction mixed on first anniversary of Trump's Cuba policy
Saturday - 06/16/2018 - 08:00 AMPresident Donald Trump stood before a crowd of Cuban Americans at the Manuel Artime Theater in Little Havana a year ago Saturday and with great fanfare and to the accompaniment … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How the chaos in Venezuela may influence who becomes president of Colombia
Friday - 06/15/2018 - 12:01 PMA few days before Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia, several dozen Venezuelans huddled in a small church in the capital of Bogotá to pray that voters “wouldn’t make a mistake.” … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump is willing to negotiate with North Korea — but not Cuba
Thursday - 06/14/2018 - 03:41 PMOne year after President Donald Trump came to Miami and signed a presidential directive outlining his new Cuba policy, the White House shows little appetite for negotiations of a “better … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Army judge not planning for 9/11 trial at Guantánamo in 2019
Wednesday - 06/13/2018 - 04:20 PMThe military judge in the 9/11 trial is scheduling 16 weeks of on-again, off-again pretrial hearings at Guantánamo in 2019, a timetable that makes clear the five-man war crimes trial … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nicaraguan activists visit Miami to help raise funds for battle against Ortega government
Wednesday - 06/13/2018 - 12:31 PMOne is a 22-year-old dental student. The other is a 20-year-old studying medicine. Both are in Miami to raise awareness of the ongoing student-led street battles occurring in their native … Click to Continue »
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- European Union hits 11 more Venezuelans with sanctions
Monday - 06/25/2018 - 09:59 AMThe European Union hit 11 current and former Venezuelan officials with sanctions Monday, as the South American country continues to face condemnation over the snap presidential election last month that … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - These Haitian kids need surgery in another country. Getting a passport is the hard part
Friday - 06/22/2018 - 12:32 PMJonenskia Hector's best chance at life is a passport. Diagnosed with a large hole in her heart, the 8-year-old girl has been waiting for months to have a life-saving surgery … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - These Americans suffered severe neurological disorders in Cuba. Now they have a lawyer
Wednesday - 06/20/2018 - 12:57 PMSeveral U.S victims of alleged “health attacks” in Cuba have hired a lawyer out of concern over how the U.S. government will handle their long-term medical treatment. “That's not at … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cubans on the island want to talk to you about refilling their phone minutes
Tuesday - 06/19/2018 - 12:57 PM“Little bro, hook me up with a refill. It's only 20 little pesos.” That and other similar phrases are regularly posted on the social networks of Cubans who are asking … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ivan Duque beats former guerrilla to win Colombia's presidential election
Sunday - 06/17/2018 - 05:56 PMIvan Duque, a 41-year-old political newcomer, won Colombia’s presidency Sunday promising to revitalize the country’s economy and overhaul a historic peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S. Congress to U.N.: What are you doing to compensate Haiti's cholera victims?
Friday - 06/15/2018 - 06:20 PMMore than 100 members of Congress are sounding the alarm over Haiti's deadly cholera epidemic and the victims of the waterborne disease who are still awaiting compensation from the United … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dangerous drug lord or academic? Nicaraguan opposition leader fights charges by Ortega
Friday - 06/15/2018 - 03:17 PMIf you sit down to chat with Felix Maradiaga, he sounds pretty much like the mild-mannered academic almost everybody has always thought he was: a guy with a master's degree … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US military adjusts for Ramadan at Guantánamo
Thursday - 06/14/2018 - 01:19 PMWhile the Guantánamo detainees pray, the military makes special accommodations during the Muslim holy month. The kitchen prepares extra meals for a midnight snack for the men, who usually don't get a food option in the middle of the night.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- U.S. travel to Cuba down since Trump policy change. So are reported human rights cases.
Thursday - 06/14/2018 - 12:00 AMWhile Cuban diplomats keep traveling the United States insisting it is time for the U.S. embargo to be lifted and prospecting for support at American universities, city councils and state … Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Almost 1 million people moved from Venezuela to Colombia in just two years, study shows
Wednesday - 06/13/2018 - 11:44 AMAlmost 1 million people from Venezuela are thought to have poured into neighboring Colombia in the last two years, amid a grinding economic, social and political crisis that has rattled … Click to Continue »
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