Verónica Zaragovia
Verónica Zaragovia was born in Cali, Colombia, and grew up in South Florida. She’s been a lifelong WLRN listener and is proud to cover health care for the station. Verónica has a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master's degree in journalism. For many years, Veronica lived out of a suitcase (or two) in New York City, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, D.C., San Antonio and Austin, where she worked as the statehouse and health care reporter with NPR member station KUT.
In 2016, she received a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship and moved to Germany’s capital city of Berlin where she lived for several years, working as a freelance reporter and radio instructor to American college students at the Center for International Educational Exchange (CIEE). In between that time, she also spent six months in Colombia, reporting on the peace treaty between the Colombian government and the former FARC guerrilla group, with the support of a grant from the Pulitzer Center.
Verónica speaks English and Spanish fluently and can converse in French, German and Hebrew. She loves warm weather and friendly, diverse people, and that’s why Miami will always be home.
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Miami Beach commissioners approved the appointment of Wayne Jones as the city’s new police chief — meaning he will replace Chief Richard Clements to become the city's first Black police chief. -
After pandemic-era protections expired in March, more than a million Americans were dropped from Medicaid. More than 205,000 of the disenrolled are in Florida and still qualify — many are children.
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Voters could be asked to support abortion rights through viability in the 2024 election in Florida, but the Floridians Protecting Freedom coalition has to meet tough requirements to get the item on the ballot. -
Human Rights Watch found that Florida judges denied 3.3% of petitions by minors wanting an abortion in 2007 compared to 13.3% in 2020. -
If you buy Valentine's Day flowers at a shop in South Florida, or anywhere in the U.S., they almost certainly came from South America and got inspected at Miami International Airport. -
Surfside commissioners had a surprise during a regularly scheduled meeting this week: They learned that the town manager, Andy Hyatt, resigned earlier that day. Chief of Police Rogelio Torres and Assistant Town Manager Jason Greene followed suit. -
As a first step to early treatment, health workers who speak Haitian Creole are teaching people in Little Haiti how to test themselves for HPV, the virus that causes half of all cervical cancers. -
The deadline to register to vote is on Tuesday, Oct. 11 for the general election in November. Election Day itself is on Nov. 8, 2022. -
A year ago this past Friday, the Champlain Towers South condominium collapsed in Surfside. Many first responders who searched for weeks to find victims are still struggling with what they saw, smelled and heard. -
A judge in Miami has given his initial approval to a roughly $1 billion deal for the families of the 98 victims of the Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside last year. The victims' ages at the time of the collapse will play a huge role in deciding how much money their families will get.
