Victor Garcia | Contributing Writer On March 31 FIU’s Cuban Research Institute presented a discussion comparing the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions and exile diaspora. The panel was split evenly with University of Michigan professor Silvia Pedraza and CRI Director Jorge Duany representing the Cuban perspective while FIU Professors Brian Fonseca and Ofelia Riquezes Curiel handled […]
Diego Diaz | Asst. News director Chants, jeers, and comparisons to Communist Cuba engulfed FIU’s Wertheim Performing Art Center on Dec. 9 as the crowd made their opposition known to Susan Eckstein’s work “Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America.” The Boston University professor of sociology would subsequently publish a guest column in […]
Michael McEwen / Staff Writer Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman and dealmaker of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, was extradited to the United States on Saturday Oct. 16 after his arrest 16 months ago in the West African nation of Cabo Verde. An Interpol red notice circulated for Saab’s arrest was issued in conjunction with a […]
Yansall Rasquides / Staff Writer FIU students and faculty are paving the way for Venezuelans to earn Temporary Protected Status (TPS), offering them free legal assistance. Proyecto Libertadores Siglo XXI, which translates to Project Liberators of the 21st-century, is a human rights group started by six FIU law professors at the College of Law. Luis […]
Gustavo Contreras/Staff Writer In 2016, Trump promised Venezuelan-Americans a call to action and a force of change in our native country. It is now 2020, and with his first term about to expire, Venezuelans have not gotten what we were promised. I was born and raised in Venezuela before immigrating to “Westonzuela” at the age […]
By: Sarai Leon / Contributing Writer On March 26, the United States Justice Department announced drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges on the disputed President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro and other high ranking members of the Venezuelan government and military. Although this is the first formal presentation of these crimes, this isn’t the first time that […]
By Ursula Muñoz Schaefer/Assistant Opinion Director On Wednesday April 1, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would deploy its Navy near Venezuela to stop the country’s drug trade and increase pressure against Venezuelan autocrat Nicolás Maduro. The news came a week after the U.S. Justice Department indicted Maduro and other Venezuelan government officials […]
By: Jordan Coll / Assistant News Director Mariana Atencio, author, and public speaker from Venezuela urged students to not “give someone the pen to write your story,” at a panel hosted by the Honors College. She spoke about self-development and key leadership skills on Feb. 13 at the Graham Center Ballrooms. The panel was hosted […]
Humberto Mendez Prince/Staff Writer Once more, international attention has shifted towards Venezuela’s conflict. On Tuesday, Feb. 3, interim president Juan Guaidó visited Miami on the last stop of a political tour that was meant to announce his party’s objectives for this year. As he stood in the Miami Airport Convention Center preparing to give the […]
By: Victor Jorges/News Director Diplomatic behavior and democratic elections are the only way out of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro regime according to experts at the State of the World event at FIU on Jan. 10. Elliot Abrams, Special Representative for Venezuela from the U.S. Department of State, believes that fair democratic elections are the only way […]
By: Victor Jorges / News Director Venezuela, Iran, and Australia, among other countries, entered the new decade experiencing complete turmoil. The Nation With Three Presidents Venezuela’s interim president, Juan Guaidó who has international backing from over 50 countries, was blocked from entering the National Assembly’s voting session by the national guard. The […]
By: Valentina Palm / Asst. News Director Protesters, barricades and burning tires have covered the streets in Haiti since August – now, the country is almost on a national strike. Protesters paralyze the country demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse because of governmental corruption, economic reforms, and currency devaluation. “What Haitians are living now […]
