Hatzel Vela
Politics Reporter at WTVJ-TV (Miami, FL)
Politics Reporter at WSCV-TV (Miami, FL)
#Emmy award-winning journalist covering politics at @NBC6 & @Telemundo51; formerly based in #Havana #Cuba. Send tips to [email protected] IG: @hatzelvela
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1 week ago |
nbcmiami.com | Hatzel Vela
You can call it "street diplomacy."U.S. Head of Mission in Cuba, Mike Hammer, wants to talk to the average Cuban, and six months into the job, he's made it a mission to visit all of the Cuban provinces. In videos posted on social media, Hammer shows what city he's visiting on the Caribbean island. "I walk the streets. I go up to people," Hammer told NBC6 while on a trip to Miami, where he debriefed reporters on the current situation in Cuba.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcmiami.com | Hatzel Vela
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from some 350,000 Venezuelans in the country. The move to end Temporary Protected Status, also known as TPS, has Venezuelans in Doral, the largest Venezuelan community in the United States sometimes called "Little Venezuela" or "Doralzuela," uneasy about their future. One man with TPS, 31-year-old Henyerbeth Marquez, fears his life in the U.S. is uncertain.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcchicago.com | Hatzel Vela
An undocumented mother is speaking out, unsure of what to do next after she was allegedly issued a nearly $2 million fine by immigration officials. The mother of three kids, who did not want to share her name, told Telemundo 51 Miami that she fled from gang violence in her native Honduras after her brother was killed by members of the notorious MS-13 gang. Since she arrived in the United States in 2005, she's been trying to find a legal path forward.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcmiami.com | Hatzel Vela
An undocumented mother is speaking out, unsure of what to do next after she was allegedly issued a nearly $2 million fine by immigration officials. The mother of three kids, who did not want to share her name, told Telemundo 51 that she fled from gang violence in her native Honduras after her brother was killed by members of the notorious MS-13 gang. Since she arrived in the United States in 2005, she's been trying to find a legal path forward.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcchicago.com | Hatzel Vela
NBC News has obtained exclusive bodycam and surveillance video of two human smuggling busts that authorities made earlier this year in Coral Gables. The first video is from Jan. 17, when Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak said 23 people who were found in a U-Haul van and another five people who were in a Toyota were taken into custody. The people in the U-Haul included six women and 15 men from China, along with a Cuban man and a woman from Ecuador, Hudak said.
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