Daniel Rivero
Daniel Rivero is a reporter and producer for WLRN, covering Latino and criminal justice issues. Before joining the team, he was an investigative reporter and producer on the television series "The Naked Truth," and a digital reporter for Fusion.
His work has won honors of the Murrow Awards, Sunshine State Awards and Green Eyeshade Awards. He has also been nominated for a Livingston Award and a GLAAD Award on reporting on the background of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's tenure as Attorney General of Oklahoma and on the Orlando nightclub shooting, respectively.
Daniel was born on the outskirts of Washington D.C. to Cuban parents, and moved to Miami full time twenty years ago. He learned to walk with a wiffle ball bat and has been a skateboarder since the age of ten.
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For many Cuban-Americans, winning a case in court is not the point. The point is that Cuban leadership, most importantly Raúl Castro, feels pressured to step down after the indictment has been made public. -
The 2020 Super Bowl in Miami Gardens generated about 80,000 pounds of trash. With seven games set to take place at the Hard Rock Stadium in the 2026 FIFA World Cup next month, at a time when Miami-Dade is already dealing with a trash crisis, environmentalists want to try to minimize the impact. -
With his new congressional maps heavily favoring Republicans, Gov. Ron DeSantis is unilaterally declaring unconstitutional the 2010 "Fair Districts" amendment that state voters overwhelmingly approved, say statewide and national Democrats, along with the Miami attorney who got the amendment on the ballot. -
It's the latest move in the war the state has been waging for years against sociology as a discipline. -
The island was already facing a historic and worsening humanitarian crisis before the Trump administration began to impose a fuel blockade. -
Dozens of students and faculty members protested Florida International University's immigration policies at an event with President Jeannette Nuñez on Friday. Protesters said they were also frustrated after a leaked group chat showed campus Republicans advocating for killing Black people. -
The controversial new Introduction to Sociology textbook, created by the state of Florida to meet its new academic restrictions, is missing entire chapters like Race and Ethnicity, Global Inequality and Gender, Sex and Sexuality, WLRN found. -
Without Venezuelan oil to help run manufacturing and agricultural operations, material conditions in Cuba are likely to deteriorate further. That presents hope for a wholistic government change as well as fear for what comes next. WLRN spoke to prominent Cubans and Cuban-Americans about the future of the island nation. -
The office has revoked key licenses of more than two dozen companies that allegedly do business in Cuba, according to enforcement letters seen by WLRN. A critic calls the move a "fiscal drive-by." -
Miami Dade College will soon begin to authorize new charter schools, according to a presentation reviewed by WLRN, cutting out the school district. "If it's going to be funded by public dollars, in my opinion, the public should have a method by which to hold it accountable," said Miami-Dade school board member Luisa Santos.
