David C Adams
Senior Editor, Univision News
David Adams is a Senior Editor at Univision News, responsible for English language content. He was previously Miami bureau chief for Thomson Reuters, leading coverage of the Southeast US and Caribbean.
British-born, Adams came to the United States in the summer of 1992 after five years as a freelance correspondent in Central America. He spent 15 years as the Miami-based Latin America correspondent of the Tampa Bay Times, Florida’s largest newspaper. During a career spanning four decades he has covered the civil wars in Central America, the U.S. invasion of Panama, the Zapatista uprising in Mexico and other historic events in Cuba and Haiti as well as U.S. politics and immigration issues.
In 2002, Adams was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot prize by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism for outstanding reporting on Latin America and commitment to Inter-American understanding. His twin, Paul Adams, is an award-winning correspondent for the BBC.
Bryan Russi: "The root of the problem is you have to change the mindset"
A millionaire drug dealer by 20, he realized in prison that "this is not who I am." Today he is a successful real estate agent. Now he wants his voting rights back.
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Ángel Sánchez: "Who I am hasn't changed, what changed is my environment and the things I value."
From a 'super predator' in the 1990s to a top scholar in 2018, it is hard to imagine a more deserving case for Amendment Four. Ángel Sánchez is lucky to be alive after running with a street gang in his teens. Now he makes his professors proud.
Debt paid? Former Florida felons seek restoration of right to vote
A Florida ballot amendment in November could restore voting rights to an estimated 1.4 million released felons, including at least 180,000 Hispanics, potentially altering the political balance in the nation’s largest swing state. Meet some of the felons who have turned their lives around and say they have paid their debt to society.
Caridad Galan: "I paid my time and I’m still paying."
After serving her sentence she had a hard time finding work and believes Amendment Four is needed as part of a wider overhaul of the system to give greater consideration to rehabilitation.
Yraida Guanipa: "I strongly believe she can be a force for good out of prison, just as she is in prison.”
This Venezuelan-born mother of two continues to battle her drug conspiracy conviction, while supporting others adjusting to life out of prison and suing the State of Florida to restore voting rights for convicted felons.
Ignacio Calderin: "I wasn’t a criminal. I was young and dumb"
After his release from prison in 2002 he struggled at first to reintegrate. But then he found his passion; helping others deal with life after prison. His phone is full of what he calls the "success stories" from doing his job. Now he wants his voting rights back.
In photos: The reunion of a deported Honduran woman and her daughter after two years of separation
Karla Cruz was detained at an airport when she asked for asylum and was denied and then unwittingly signed a voluntary deportation order. She was separated from Zury, her seven-year-old U.S. born daughter, for 22 months.
