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For more than a year, Veronica and her sister have been in hiding here in El Salvador, hoping to receive refugee status in the United States. The two girls were doing homework at their dining room table when masked men burst in and gunned down their grandparents — the community’s only two health workers — on rumors that the couple had been tipping off the police about gangs in the neighborhood.

As outgoing Cuban president Raúl Castro tells it, even too many of the radio and television newscasters in Cuba are white.

"In Cuba’s Change of Leadership, More Black Officials in Power" is from the April 22, 2018 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles and Azam Ahmed and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico with great fury, but the government there has reported an official death toll far lower than the devastation suggests.

"Official Toll in Puerto Rico: 62. Actual Deaths May Be 1,052." is from the December 08, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles, Kenan Davis, Sheri Fink and Sarah Almukhtar and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

For an overburdened pediatrician trying to care for a child who was in pain, needed hip surgery, and was displaced from his home in the wake of Hurricane Maria, it seemed a godsend — a modern military hospital ship sent from its berth in Virginia to help with medical care in Puerto Rico. But after days calling phone numbers that did not work and trying to navigate the admissions process for the ship, the 894-foot USNS Comfort, Dr. Jorge Gabriel Rosado finally gave up.

"Amid Puerto Rico Disaster, Hospital Ship Admitted Just 6 Patients a Day" is from the December 06, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles and Sheri Fink and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Florida’s Stand Your Ground law was meant to make sure that average residents could defend themselves without fear of arrest or trial.

"Officers in Florida Shootings Say They Can Stand Their Ground, Too" is from the January 27, 2018 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Facing withering criticism from members of Congress and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the governor of Puerto Rico moved Sunday to cancel a $300 million contract awarded to a small Montana company to rebuild part of the island’s battered power grid.

"Puerto Rico Cancels Whitefish Energy Contract to Rebuild Power Lines" is from the October 29, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles and Deborah Acosta and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

The police arrested two men, including a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and were seeking a third in connection with violent episodes that took place at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, this month, including the beating of an African-American man that was caught on video and widely shared on social media.

"Three Charged After Violence in Charlottesville" is from the August 26, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Some mountainous areas of Puerto Rico are going to be without electricity for as long as eight months, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said this week. It has been three months since Hurricane Maria swept through the island, knocking down tens of thousands of power poles and turning off virtually everyone’s lights. The amount of power being generated there is about 65 percent of capacity — and it has been stuck around that level since late November.

"Parts of Puerto Rico Won’t Have Power for 8 Months. What’s the Holdup?" is from the December 23, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles and Patricia Mazzei and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

PARKLAND, Fla. — A Florida social services agency conducted an in-home investigation of Nikolas Cruz after he exhibited troubling behavior nearly a year and a half before he shot and killed 17 people at his former high school in Florida, a state report shows.

"Inquiry Found Florida Suspect Was No Danger" is from the February 18, 2018 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Audra D.S. Burch, Frances Robles and Patricia Mazzei and narrated by Kristi Burns.

On an island where about 400,000 people have moved away since the 2000 census, Lares lost the highest percentage of its residents — almost a quarter of its population since the census. The downtown plaza that marks the route that rebels took in 1868 to wrestle free from Spain’s colonial grasp is now surrounded by abandoned storefronts. Handwritten signs offering battered buildings for rent or sale have become the hallmark of a city struggling to keep pace with a continuing exodus.

"An Exodus From a Historic Puerto Rican Town" is from the July 16, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded crescendoed over the Caribbean on Thursday, crumpling islands better known as beach paradises into half-habitable emergency zones and sideswiping Puerto Rico before churning north. It is expected to hit the Florida Keys and South Florida by Saturday night.

"Devastation in the Caribbean as Irma Heads Toward Miami" is from the September 07, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles, Kirk Semple and Vivian Yee and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

José A. Rivera, a farmer on the southeast coast of Puerto Rico, stood in the middle of his flattened plantain farm on Sunday and tried to tally how much Hurricane Maria had cost him.

"‘No More Agriculture in Puerto Rico,’ a Farmer Laments" is from the September 24, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles and Luis Ferré Sadurní and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

They shouted down the mayor and City Council members, took over the council chambers for about a half-hour, and gave more than four hours of impassioned testimony about how city officials had botched the response to the deadly white supremacist rally here this month.

"Chaos Breaks out at Charlottesville City Council Meeting" is from the August 22, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles and narrated by Kristi Burns.

A day after Hurricane Maria razed Puerto Rico, its ferocious winds smashing houses, hotels, cellphone towers and the island’s entire electrical grid, the fear and frustration were pervasive Thursday.

"Puerto Rico Faces Mountain of Obstacles on the Road to Recovery" is from the September 21, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Luis Ferré Sadurní, Lizette Alvarez and Frances Robles and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

A white nationalist whose behavior at violent gatherings this month in Charlottesville, Virginia, brought him notoriety after he was featured in a widely viewed documentary, has surrendered to authorities in Virginia days after warrants went out for his arrest.

"Christopher Cantwell, White Nationalist, Surrenders to the Police" is from the August 24, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles and Matt Stevens and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Just days after a May Day strike sent tens of thousands of people to the streets in a protest that turned violent, people gathered at work, in parks and their homes in never-ending debates over the uncertainties. At the Río Piedras terminal where Rivera works, the drivers and cleaning crews huddled to gripe about waning business and pensions, as well as ever-rising fees and water and electricity bills.

"Fiscal Fears Grip Puerto Ricans Facing ‘Sacrifice Everywhere’" is from the May 06, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

With schools shuttered, pensions at risk and the island under the authority of an oversight board in New York City, half a million Puerto Ricans voted overwhelmingly Sunday to become the United States’ 51st state, in a flawed election most voters sat out.

"23 Percent of Puerto Ricans Vote in Referendum, 97 Percent of Them for Statehood" is from the June 11, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

For some of the businesses and government agencies that surround President Donald Trump’s “Winter White House,” the effects of his frequent weekend getaways to Mar-a-Lago can best be told in numbers.

"Empty Tables and Idle Planes: Mar-A-Lago Toll" is from the February 19, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by  and  and narrated by Caroline Miller.

A mysterious death, a decade-old murder and a human rights lawsuit in federal court in Boston are casting a light on the patronage politics of Haiti and its culture of impunity.

"Haiti’s Violent Politics Move to Court. In Boston." is from the April 01, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Frances Robles and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Even by the standard of Haitian rebels, Guy Philippe was acting pretty confidently for a man on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s list of wanted drug traffickers.

He publicly sauntered into a government office last week to pick up the certificate that confirmed his election to the Haitian Senate, a document he thought would offer the legal immunity he so craved.