U.S. COAST GUARD

3 held on drug charges following arrest at sea

Details have emerged on the Coast Guard’s interdiction of a boat carrying cocaine off the coast of Panama.

President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee event at the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta.

War on terror

Obama to speak on prison, legality of drone program

President Barack Obama will discuss the legality of his administration’s secret drone program and his plans to close the prison camps at Guantánamo during a speech Thursday on counterterrorism practices, a White House official said.

IMMIGRATION

Immigration deadline may leave tens of thousands without legal status

A wide-ranging immigration bill provides a pathway to citizenship for some 11 million undocumented immigrants but more than 300,000 may not qualify.

Rajvi Shah, the head of USAID, hands a land title to a woman who had been forced off her property by Colombia's civil conflict.

U.S. Foreign Policy

U.S. foreign aid chief talks about region’s future

In a recent visit to Colombia, USAID’s Rajiv Shah talked to The Miami Herald about working in a region sometimes hostile to the agency’s goals.

Indian women and men whose family members were killed in the country's civil war celebrate the judge's guilty verdict for Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt after his genocide trial in Guatemala City, Friday, May 10, 2013. The Guatemalan court convicted Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, sentencing him to 80 years in prison. The 86-year-old former general is the first former Latin American leader ever found guilty of such a charge. The war between the government and leftist rebels cost more than 200,000 lives and ended in peace accords in 1996.

Guatemala | ANALYSIS

Remembering Efraín Ríos Montt and reeling from a new terror

Guatemalan strongman Ríos Montt’s conviction for genocide was cause for celebration and concern in the Central American nation. The cheer is being replaced by a new worry: drug violence.

Turks and Caicos

Turks and Caicos authorities drop gun charges against American tourists

Authorities in the Turks and Caicos have dropped charges against a retired Florida neurosurgeon and Texas businesswoman arrested at an airport after a bullet was found in their luggage.

TRADE

Gov. Rick Scott leads trade mission to Chile

Chile, Florida’s No. 6 export destination for products, was the first Latin American country to sign a U.S. free trade agreement.

File art from February 24, 2011: On the 15th anniversary of the murder of four members of Brothers to the Rescue planes that were shot down by Cuba MiGs, Jose Basulto and Sylvia Iriondo and a group of friends and members of the movement held a minute of silence in memory of the four fliers at Opa-Locka airport.

Cuban balsero census being taken by Brothers to the Rescue leader at Cuba Nostalgia

If you are a Cuban balsero and were spotted in the Florida Straits by a Brothers to the Rescue plane between 1991 and 1996, come to Cuba Nostalgia this weekend to leave your name for a list being created by the group’s founder, Jose Basulto. Photo Gallery Available

PORTMIAMI

Army Corps of Engineers awards contract to deepen Miami port

A dredging contract ws awarded to make the port’s channels deep enough for the ships that will traverse an expanded Panama Canal

A man works in a patch of land in Havana on April 5, 2011.

CUBA

Cuban food production drops despite reforms

Part of the decline could be the result of devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in agriculture-rich Eastern Cuba.

United Nations

New UN assessment of disaster risks highlights Peru

A new United Nations assessment of how to reduce risk after a disaster calls for closer cooperation between the private and public sectors.

In my opinion

A quince party in Cuba: a real fairytale to be recalled at this weekend’s Cuba Nostalgia

Like many teenage girls in Cuba, Lydia Hortensia de Castroverde yearned to be a quinceañera — to one day dress like a princess, enter a banquet hall full of family and friends on her father’s arm to dance a waltz, then blow out the candles on a spectacular cake. In effect, flying out as a butterfly from a cocoon. A beautiful human spring. Video Available

CUBA

Canadian jailed in Havana corruption scandal speaks out

Sarkis Yacoubian, a Canadian accused of corruption in Cuba, says he blew the lid on a major corruption scandal. Photo Gallery Available

Caribbean

Canada to help Caribbean youths with university education

More Caribbean youth to have access to post-secondary education thanks to help from Canada.

A U.S. Navy corpsman at the Camp 6 medical clinic shows shelves of Ensure nutritional supplement used in forced feedings of hunger striking prisoners in this image approved for release by the military at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

IN THE CAMPS

Guantánamo: 30 of the 100 hunger strikers now being tube-fed

Guantánamo prison staff members were tube-feeding 30 of the 100 hunger-striking captives on Wednesday, the detention center said, reporting an all-time high last reached in 2005.

IN THE CAMPS

Rights groups to Pentagon: End ‘cruel’ force-feeding

Human rights organizations are asking Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to order troops to abandon the practice of force-feeding prisoners at Guantánamo, a move that could permit them starve to death if they choose. Photo Gallery Available

‘Yankees of Cuba’ to play games in Miami, Tampa

The idea came from a comedian, but it’s far from being a joke.

CUBA

Cuba government minister reports on corruption in international deals and gas

The Cuban cabinet hears about irregularities in international deals and the growing problem of gasoline thefts.

6/13/05 -- MARSHA HALPER/HERALD STAFF -- Hollywood, FL. -- State Sen. Bill Nelson (D) spoke in Hollywood on Monday about his ongoing opposition to oil drilling off Florida's coast. He said he intends to start a filibuster in the U.S. Senate as it begins debate on an energy bill that could allow drilling 10 miles anywhere offshore. Nelson has been a member of Florida's congressional delegation on protecting the environment and a $50 billion tourism industry from the risks posed by drilling. He was photographed at the Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa inHollywood. (3 OF 3 PHOTOS) for E.Bolstad story.

Turks and Caicos

Florida Senator continues to demand answers after Americans’ arrest in Turks and Caicos

Sen. Bill Nelson is pushing hard for a probe into American tourists being arrested at Caribbean airports over the discovery of bullets in their luggage.

News Media

WLRN, Herald to expand Latin America coverage

A bureau in Brazil will be established and two veteran reporters will join the current team to produce stories from the hemisphere for broadcast and print.

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