Ver贸nica Zaragovia
Health Care ReporterVer贸nica Zaragovia was born in Cali, Colombia, and grew up in South Florida. She鈥檚 been a lifelong WLRN listener and is proud to cover health care, as well as Surfside and Miami Beach politics for the station.
Ver贸nica has a bachelor鈥檚 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鈥檚 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.
Ver贸nica speaks English and Spanish fluently and can converse in French, German and Hebrew. She loves warm weather and friendly, diverse people, and that鈥檚 why Miami will always be home.
Contact Ver贸nica at vzaragovia@wlrnnews.org
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The pier will be closed on Oct. 8 and 9 for the gate removal. As part of the city's plan to maintain art in public places, the gate will get some care for corrosion. -
A new ad campaign from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation aims to encourage testing and treatment in Florida and across the U.S. That includes billboards in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, showing two elderly people sharing a kiss with the caption: 鈥淪TDs are timeless.鈥�
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Just weeks remain before Election Day, leading campaigns for and against expanding abortion rights in Florida are ramping up their messaging, from TV ads to chatting in person, about Amendment 4. They aim to motivate voters enough to cast their ballots. -
The daughter of a Broward Health pharmacy technician who scored two coveted tickets to see Taylor Swift in October at the Hard Rock Stadium, decided to give them to a pediatric oncology patient from Coral Springs.
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A poll of newly naturalized U.S. citizens in Florida found slightly more than half, 53%, plan to vote for Democrat Kamala Harris, while about 40% said they will support Republican Donald Trump. -
A new ad campaign from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation aims to encourage testing and treatment in Florida and across the U.S. That includes billboards in Fort Lauderdale and Miami. -
Federal investigators say they continue working to determine what caused the catastrophic partial collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside that killed 98 people in June 2021. -
Miami Beach Commissioners agreed to consider renovation costs and rehabbing the theater with Live Nation. That鈥檚 the entertainment company that operates the Fillmore. -
Miami Beach commissioners agreed to preserve the South Shore Community Center. They also agreed to upgrade and improve the Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater, with $29 million set aside, rather than tear it down for a new performance space. -
A synthetic opioid called isotonitazene or ISO is far more potent and deadly than fentanyl, and a standard amount of Narcan won't overturn an overdose. Police are finding it pressed into pills, marketed as oxycodone, for instance, here in South Florida. -
Officials are proposing changes to the city鈥檚 sea turtle ordinance from 2006 to reduce how often hatchlings are led away from the ocean after becoming disoriented by artificial lights. -
Hospital systems across South Florida are using more robots in operations, because these machines make finer incisions that lead to quicker recovery times. Surgeons still need to train to use these platforms, though, since they don't operate alone.
