Dánica Coto

@danicacoto

@AP correspondent covering all things Caribbean. Trilingual editor & translator. Tica. Alum of @theobserver @SunSentinel Tips? [email protected]

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Joined June 2009

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Apr 24, 2024

Photographer @AP_respinosa and I arrived in Haiti a week ago. The main intl airport remains closed since early March and the biggest seaport is largely paralyzed as gangs persist in their deadly rampage. Catch up on our coverage below to learn what life is like in Haiti now:

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Haiti sends 150 soldiers to Mexico for training as gang violence surges apnews.com/article/haiti-…

danicacoto's tweet card. Haiti has sent 150 soldiers to Mexico for training in the latest effort to fight back gangs that have gained almost entire control of the troubled country’s capital.

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · 11 h

Early Hawaiian petroglyphs on a beach are visible again with changing tides and shifting sands. The beach is located in an area that the US military took over in the 1930s, evicting Native Hawaiians apnews.com/article/hawaii…

danicacoto's tweet card. Early Hawaiian petroglyphs have resurfaced on a beach in Waianae, Hawaii. This is the first time the entire panel of 26 figures has been visible since they were spotted nine years ago.

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 24

Breaking: Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza apnews.com/article/france…

danicacoto's tweet card. French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 24

Electrical lines from a toppled utility pole kill 4 horses as Puerto Rico's power grid deteriorates apnews.com/article/puerto…

danicacoto's tweet card. Electrical lines from a toppled utility pole have killed four horses in central Puerto Rico in an incident that also saw power knocked out to the area, underlining the deteriorating state of the U.S....

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 23

3 Haitian policemen and an informant were killed and a fourth officer is missing as gangs overrun a central region apnews.com/article/haiti-…

danicacoto's tweet card. Haiti’s government and a police union say three police officers and two civilians have been killed in the country’s central region where gang violence has surged.

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 23

When Fact-Checking Meant Something yalereview.org/article/susan-…

danicacoto's tweet card. Susan Choi reviews Austin Kelley's The Fact Checker —and recalls her own early career as a fact-checker at The New Yorker .

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 23

NEW: Scientists in Barbados overturn hundreds of rocks to rediscover the world's smallest-known snake for the first time in almost 20 years apnews.com/article/barbad…

danicacoto's tweet card. No one had spotted the world’s smallest known snake for nearly two decades. Some scientists worried that maybe the Barbados threadsnake had become extinct.

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 22

Puerto Rico's government sues private power company as chronic outages damage appliances apnews.com/article/puerto…

danicacoto's tweet card. Puerto Rico’s government is suing a private power company, claiming it is responsible for damages to appliances caused by chronic power outages in the U.S. territory.

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 22

4 US cruise ship passengers accused of smuggling drugs are detained in Bermuda apnews.com/article/bermud…

danicacoto's tweet card. Authorities in Bermuda say they have arrested four U.S. cruise ship passengers accused of drug possession.

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 22

Jamaican police kill 5 men as department criticized for surge in fatal shootings apnews.com/article/jamaic…

danicacoto's tweet card. Police in Jamaica say they have filled five men suspected of plotting to kill someone as the department comes under fire for a surge in fatal shootings.

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 21

Confirmed: Federal agents in Miami arrest a prominent Haitian businessman and once presidential hopeful apnews.com/article/regina…

danicacoto's tweet card. Federal agents in Miami have arrested Pierre Réginald Boulos, a well-known Haitian businessman, physician and former presidential hopeful.

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 21

Volunteers flock to immigration courts to support migrants arrested in the hallways apnews.com/article/immigr…

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 18

Colombia's Petro visits Haiti for a 2nd time to help bolster security as gang violence surges apnews.com/article/haiti-…

danicacoto's tweet card. Colombian President Gustavo Preto has arrived in Haiti for the second time this year in a show of support as gangs in the troubled Caribbean country continue to gain ground.

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 18

Trinidad and Tobago imposes another state of emergency after uncovering plot to kill key officials By @AnselmGibbs apnews.com/article/trinid…

danicacoto's tweet card. Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago have declared a new state of emergency after accusing “a coordinated and highly dangerous criminal network” operating in prisons across the country of plotting to...

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 18

Men from countries including Jamaica and Cuba who were deported by the US to Eswatini in Africa will be held in solitary confinement for an undetermined time apnews.com/article/eswati…

danicacoto's tweet image. Men from countries including Jamaica and Cuba who were deported by the US to Eswatini in Africa will be held in solitary confinement for an undetermined time

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 18

In Liberia's version of baseball, there are no bats and no men apnews.com/article/liberi…

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 17

In American life, a growing and forbidding visual rises: the law-enforcement officer in a mask apnews.com/article/ice-ma…

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 17

"...the mobile homes of marine creatures turned voluptuaries of geometry and color, elaborate living urns, lavish lampshades for the palace of some sea god, miniature Hindu temples, gorgeous drag queens of the deep, otherworldly amphoras from the bottom of this spectacular world"

TThe Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings)@brainpickings · Jul 17

In this season of the sea, stunning illustrations of shells from the world's first color encyclopedia of mollusks themarginalian.org/2021/01/09/con…

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The Associated Press@AP · Jul 17

BREAKING: ICE officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all Medicaid enrollees, according to an agreement obtained by the AP. apnews.com/article/immigr…

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Dánica Coto@danicacoto · Jul 17

Puerto Rico bans hormone therapy and gender surgery for transgender youth apnews.com/article/puerto…

danicacoto's tweet card. Puerto Rico’s governor has signed a bill that prohibits hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgeries for transgender youth, a move that has drawn sharp criticism from activists in the largely...

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