When the history of Venezuela’s ongoing collapse is finally written, entire chapters will be dedicated to the crooks. Swindlers, scoundrels, and sinvergüenzas of all stripes — protected by a wall of state-sanctioned corruption that allowed them to siphon billions of dollars out of the country into private bank accounts around the world.
El dia que se ordenó su deportación de los Estados Unidos, Diego Alejandro Rojas no pensó en su propio bienestar. Sus pensamientos no se dirigieron al caos que seguramente lo esperaba en Venezuela. Tampoco contempló las amenazas de muerte de los grupos paramilitares locales que lo habían obligado a huir en primer lugar.
When he was ordered deported from the United States, Diego Alejandro Rojas didn’t think of himself. His mind didn’t turn to the chaos that awaited him in Venezuela. He didn’t linger on the death threats from the local paramilitary thugs who forced him to flee in the first place.
Stop if you’ve heard this one before: A once-affordable city likened to paradise undergoes a blistering development boom that forces longtime residents out of the neighborhoods they’ve called home for generations
The back-to-school season never seemed so grim. To the dismay of parents, bulletproof backpacks now join 64-count crayon boxes and binders on shopping lists for the new school year.
Sitting in front of a computer screen in his home in Brandon, Florida, Daniel McMahon allegedly carried out a campaign of terror, encouraging violence against countless people and helping influence at least one murderous white nationalist. This week, federal authorities finally caught up with him.
The battle over Florida’s controversial ban on sanctuary cities doesn’t look like it will be settled anytime soon. As state lawmakers return to Tallahassee this week to jockey over priorities for the 2020 legislative session in January, Hialeah Rep. Cindy Polo is taking square aim at the contentious anti-sanctuary law, which was forced through by Republican lawmakers in May at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
International aid was quick to get to the Bahamas soon after Hurricane Dorian, but slow to reach parts of the affected islands due to a mountain of logistical challenges. The hurricane, which was a Category 5 storm when it made landfall, flooded Grand Bahama’s only major airport. The airspace over Abaco and Grand Bahama during the next few days was busy with helicopters running search and rescue missions, jockeying for limited landing strip space. On the island of Abaco, evacuations of Bahamians from the town of Marsh Harbour are still ongoing.
As Hurricane Dorian barreled into the U.S. Virgin Islands on its rampage through the Caribbean, the Trump administration was busy redirecting millions of dollars in federal disaster relief to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Haitian activists in Miami are calling on the Bahamian government to suspend all immigration enforcement actions until the battered islands and their undocumented residents have had a chance to recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Dorian.
As Hurricane Dorian begins to slowly move away from the Caribbean, Bahamians are struggling to piece together their lives from the wreckage of the storm, which leveled entire neighborhoods on the islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco. With no home to return to, many evacuees are now looking to reunite with family abroad in the United States.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced that they have suspended immigration enforcement operations in Florida until Dorian passes. Immigrant advocacy groups say they’re still preparing for the worst.
As Florida struggles to fill thousands of empty teaching positions, developers in the Miami area continue to erect expensive (and largely vacant) condo towers. This witch’s brew of scant affordable housing and abysmal pay for teachers has made Miami one of the worst metropolitan areas in the nation for an entry-level schoolteacher.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis formally declared a state of emergency this afternoon as Hurricane Dorian continues on its path toward South Florida.
More than 4 million Venezuelans have been forced to flee their country, most in the past few years, due to the economic and political crisis created by strongman Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor, the late Hugo Chávez. The immense exodus, the largest in the modern history of the Western Hemisphere…
Go back a few months and a thousand miles to Washington, D.C., and I might have naively told you that “Welcome to Miami” was either a greeting or an endearingly cheesy rap song by Will Smith. Oh, how wrong I was. “Welcome to Miami” isn’t a greeting. It’s a commiseration…
The Amazon rainforest has been ablaze for weeks, cloaking Brazilian cities in smog and drawing international concern. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who campaigned on reopening the Amazon to business, says his government can’t stop the wildfires. For environmental protesters in Miami and other major cities around the world, that’s not good enough.
The Trump administration has been a boon to all kinds: con men, comedians, corporate shareholders, nativists, white nationalists, pollsters, pundits, political scientists, and even Vladimir Putin. The list is long. But go down far enough and you’re sure to find the name of South Florida Pastor Mario Bramnick.
There won’t be any movies made about the multimillion-dollar scam sold by Boca Raton resident Scott Strochak. No Leonardo DiCaprio depictions, no adaptions by Martin Scorsese, and no big-money Netflix deal. In truth, Strochak’s alleged scheme amounts to small potatoes when it comes to ill-gotten riches in South Florida, and even smaller in the larger world of financial chicanery. Still, $3.8 million is nothing to balk at.
Venezuela is crumbling. The once-wealthy South American nation’s economy is in free fall, doing more twists and flips on its way to rock bottom than Simone Biles at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships.
What do you call someone willing to face more than three hours of Miami gridlock five days a week? Crazy? A masochist? Well, take a look at how much these people earn, and you might just change your mind.
Violent clashes between protesters and police in Hong Kong continue weeks after mass demonstrations in the city first turned ugly in June. The unrest, which began in response to a now-shelved bill that would have allowed for the extradition of people to China, has expanded to a wider struggle over Hong Kong’s sovereignty and the use of excessive force by law enforcement.
