Daniel Rivero
Investigative ReporterDaniel Rivero is part of WLRN's new investigative reporting team. Before joining WLRN, 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.
He can be reached at drivero@wlrnnews.org
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Hialeah, a majority-Cuban city of 235,000, sees the stars aligned for a generation-defining moment. The clear conduit for that change, as they see it: President Trump. But his efforts to maximize pressure on Cuba has deepened a humanitarian crisis, dividing opinion even among residents. -
Alleged expat 'terrorist' said he was 'ready to die' to free Cuba — and called exile leaders cowardsCuba says two of the ten Cuban expats captured after a shootout with its coast guard were already on the regime's terrorist list — and in a recent video, one of them urged "cowardly" exiles to die to free the communist island. Meanwhile, it emerged that the boat used by the expats may have been stolen from a home in the Florida Keys. -
Cuban state media said the Florida-registered boat was approached for identification a mile off the coast of the Villa Clara province when the people aboard opened fire. -
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. "What was put on our shoulders was saving our discipline and saving our colleagues' jobs,” said a sociologist who helped create the book. -
In a dramatic escalation of a years-long battle over sociology in Florida colleges and universities, FIU faculty allege that new state mandates for an Introduction to Sociology course amount to an attack on academic freedom and censorship of the discipline. "There are no discussions of systemic or structural racism — a core concept in sociology,” an associate professor said. -
Without Venezuelan oil to help run manufacturing and agricultural operations, material conditions in Cuba are likely to deteriorate further. That presents hope for a holistic 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 city wants to hand the iconic theater back to Miami Dade College for at least 20 years. -
Miami-Dade tax collector shuts down, then reinstates Cuban charter flight company. Now they’re suingXael Charters is suing Miami-Dade Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez, asking a federal court to bar him from effectively shutting down their business over alleged illegal activity in Cuba, and to declare that a state law cited by Fernandez is unconstitutional. -
As part of an effort to crack down on business relationships with Cuba and strike at the heart of the communist government, Miami-Dade's tax collector 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." -
The solemn list of names spanned generations, ranging in age from 19 to 99, and included four U.S. military veterans. -
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. -
For the first time in decades, a Democrat has won the mayoral race in the City of Miami in a race that drew national attention from both major parties, including Republican President Donald Trump.
