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Could El Salvador's Draconian Abortion Ban Become Part Of Florida's Debate? Jan 20, 2020

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Two months ago, Democratic state Rep. Cindy Polo of Miami Lakes visited a prison in El Salvador. Polo met an inmate named Berta Margarita Arana, a Salvadoran woman serving eight years for attempting an abortion.

Ghost Flights, Terror Frights: Why Iran, Hezbollah 'Footprint' In Venezuela Matters Jan 13, 2020

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In 2012, the Presidents of Venezuela and Iran met at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. The bromance between Hugo Chávez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alarmed Washington, since Venezuela and Iran were (and still are) sworn enemies of the U.S. So Chávez had fun joking that Ahmadinejad had come to help him “fire large missiles” at America.

Haiti 10 Years After The Earthquake: Why So Little Recovery Progress In A Decade? Jan 06, 2020

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Port-au-Prince was a canyon of crushed concrete and horrified screams as Jean Samson Edouard ran panicked and barefoot through the capital’s Carrefour-Feuilles district.

Latin America And The Caribbean 2019: From Fire In The Streets To Ire In The Skies Dec 30, 2019

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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 violent political unrest that rocked capitals from La Paz to Port-au-Prince, to a record number of fires that ravaged the Amazon rainforest.

How A Miami Bank Became HQ For Efforts That Led To Panama Invasion 30 Years Ago Dec 16, 2019

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Thirty years ago this Friday – Dec. 20, 1989 – the U.S. invaded Panama. The main objective was to capture the Panamanian dictator, General Manuel Noriega, who was wanted in the U.S. for drug trafficking. The invasion also restored democracy in Panama.

Back To The U.S.-Cuba Future? New Animosities Raise Fears Relations May Be Severed Again Dec 02, 2019

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Last month a big anniversary in the western hemisphere went largely unnoticed in the U.S.

The Elián Drama 20 Years After: Miami Judge Remembers The 'Hardest Decision' Nov 25, 2019

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Twenty years ago this week, on Thanksgiving Day, a 5-year-old Cuban boy named Elián González was found floating on an inner tube in the Atlantic off Fort Lauderdale. His mother had taken him with her fleeing communist Cuba. She drowned. For the next seven months, Elián was the focus of a bizarre tug-of -war between his father in Cuba and his Cuban exile relatives in Miami – who wanted to keep Elián in the U.S.

The Immigration Crisis Falls On Her Doorstep. 'Where We Come From' Explores What Happens Next. Nov 18, 2019

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Few issues dominate our politics today more passionately than immigration, but we rarely see the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border dramatized in fiction. Now Texas author and border native Oscar Cásares has written what one critic calls a “quietly suspenseful” novel titled “Where We Come From.”

Venezuelan Venture: Immigrant Women Learn To Be Entrepreneurs In South Florida Nov 04, 2019

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Of all the problems immigrants need to solve when they settle in the U.S., Yllis Hernandez faced the kind that so often leads to a business.

Coming Out of the ‘Bruja Closet:’ Miami Coven Honors Latin American Occult Practices Oct 21, 2019

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Maria Manrique shuffles her Tarot card deck at Mama Tried, a dim and disco-themed bar in downtown Miami. Her table, draped with a velvet and gold-lace cloth (the kind of design that you'd expect from a fortune teller), and masked in the warm orange glow of a crystal lamp, casts a soothing aura over the chaos of informal conversations and loud music.

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