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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.

  • Carmen Brown weeps as she walks away holding a paper restoring her right to vote during a special court hearing aimed at restoring that right in a Miami-Dade County courtroom on Nov. 8, 2019. A federal lawsuit currently underway would make it easier for others to get their voting rights restored by eliminating requirements that they pay fines and fees.
    National
    Voting Rights For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Felons At Stake In Florida Trial
    Daniel Rivero
    The trial comes after Florida voters in 2018 overwhelmingly approved an amendment to restore voting rights to most people with felony convictions. Then state lawmakers tried to scale the law back.
  • Dolce Bastien (right) registers to vote after getting his rights restored in Miami.
    Florida Faces A Rocky Rollout To Restore Voting Rights After Felony Convictions
    Daniel Rivero
    The implementation of a law that allows some felons to vote is playing out in very different — and partisan — ways across the state.
  • National
    Ship Of Bahamians Arrives In Florida
    Daniel Rivero
    Over a thousand Bahamian nationals arrived in West Palm Beach, Florida aboard a humanitarian ship.
  • Vianeth Avila's husband, Cuban-born Jesus Avila, was detained by immigration officials at the airport as they returned from their honeymoon. In recent years, the U.S. government has taken a tougher stand against Cuban immigrants.
    National
    Cuban Immigrants Were Given A Haven In The U.S.; Now They're Being Deported
    Daniel Rivero
    Sixty-four Cuban nationals were deported in fiscal year 2016. Two years later, the number was 463, a more than sevenfold increase, as U.S. policies have toughened toward Cuban immigrants.
  • People gather around the Ben & Jerry's "Yes on 4" truck as they learn about Amendment 4 in Miami, which passed election day. Now, Gov.-Elect Ron DeSantis says he and state lawmakers will need to weigh-in before the amendment goes into effect, giving voting rights back to most felons in the state.
    National
    More Than A Million Florida Felons Aren't Sure Yet Whether They Can Register To Vote
    Daniel Rivero
    The incoming Florida governor and other politicians in the state say they will need to weigh-in before the amendment passed by voters in Nov., giving voting rights back to felons, is implemented.