Nick Miroff

Dario Angulo works with his cattle in Costa Rica at sunrise.

A pipeline of undocumented workers for Donald Trump ran from Costa Rica to N.J.: ‘My whole town practically lived there’

August 22, 2019 at 3:28 p.m.

At his home on the misty slope of Costa Rica's tallest mountain, Dario Angulo keeps a set of photographs from the years he tended the rolling fairways and clipped greens...

Central American migrants traveling with a caravan to the U.S. climb onto to a trailer bed, hitching a ride to Pijijiapan, Mexico.

Trump prepara un plan para cerrar la frontera a los migrantes centroamericanos y desplegar tropas

May 15, 2019 at 4:31 p.m.

Preocupado por la caravana de migrantes que se dirige al norte a través de México, el presidente Donald Trump está considerando un plan para cerrar la frontera a los migrantes...

Francis Cissna, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, speaks during the White House press briefing in December.

Scanning immigrants’ old fingerprints, U.S. threatens to strip thousands of citizenship

August 22, 2019 at 9:14 a.m.

The Trump administration is analyzing decades-old fingerprints in an unprecedented effort to rescind American citizenship from immigrants who may have lied or falsified information on their naturalization forms. Revoking citizenship,...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. Tillerson. On Tuesday, Tillerson sent a letter to acting DHS secretary Elaine Duke to inform her that conditions in Central America and Haiti no longer required that migrants be given Temporary Protected Status.

Central Americans and Haitians no longer need protected status, State Department says

August 22, 2019 at 6:31 a.m.

More than 300,000 Central Americans and Haitians living in the United States under a form of temporary permission no longer need to be shielded from deportation, the State Department told...

People react to the news from Cuba, that Fidel Castro has died, by waving flags and banging on pots at Bird Rd and SW 87 St., in Southwest Miami, Saturday, November 26, 2016.

A country molded by Fidel Castro wonders what comes next

August 22, 2019 at 2:05 a.m.

For the nearly five decades Fidel Castro ruled this country, he was a daily presence in Cubans' lives. His speeches echoed on their televisions and his stern rules shaped almost...

Obama arrives in Cuba for historic visit

June 20, 2019 at 1:25 a.m.

President Barack Obama arrived in Cuba on Sunday afternoon, a journey of only 90 miles from U.S. shores that took more than half a century to complete. "This is a...

Colombia and rebels announce major breakthrough in peace talks

June 23, 2019 at 8:48 p.m.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the leader of the FARC rebel group announced a major breakthrough Wednesday in their peace negotiations, bringing the country to the verge of ending...

President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shake hands at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, April 11, 2015.

Castro, Obama hold historic meeting, agree to foster ‘a new relationship’

May 17, 2019 at 6:49 p.m.

President Barack Obama and President Raúl Castro symbolically ended more than a half-century of official estrangement between the United States and Cuba here on Saturday in a historic-face-to-face meeting that...

An argument between the U.S. and Venezuela is putting Cuba in an awkward position

June 20, 2019 at 12:43 a.m.

President Barack Obama's attempt to mend relations with Cuba while simultaneously turning the screws on Venezuela, Havana's closest ally, is making for some fascinating triangular diplomacy. Late Monday night, after...

Havana, from on high: city’s secret rooftop communities await their next adaptation

August 18, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

You can't see the secret world of Havana's rooftops from the street. But get high enough and look out across the skyline and it's there, a whole other city in...

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