After ordering tequeños, a Venezuelan cheese stick, and an arepa, grilled corn cakes stuffed with chicken and cheese, Harris headed 15 miles north to Miami Gardens, where Florida Memorial University’s marching band, The Roar, greeted her with three songs ahead of a forum with Black community leaders in South Florida. By D Smiley, A. Daugherty, E. Doherty . Full Text -> MiamIHerald

Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido said Friday he is counting on the United States to maintain pressure on President Nicolas Maduro no matter who wins the US’ November presidential election. Full Text -> France24

To win the presidency in the 2020 presidential election, vice president Joe Biden must first win the state of Florida, but if he chooses California Rep. Karen Bass (D), the prospect of winning the Sunshine State is all-but dead on arrival. Biden must win over the large Cuban-American population in the state, and now the growing Colombian and Venezuelan communities that sympathize with the exile community that has lived here since the beginning of the Cuban Revolution over five decades ago. By Javier Manjarres. Full Text -> TheFloridian

Biden has been careful to say he does not support “regime change” for Venezuela, the phrase used to describe the George W. Bush administration’s approach to Iraq. But he has come close to endorsing the concept in substance. As he told the Americas Quarterly in March, Maduro “is a dictator, plain and simple, but the overriding goal in Venezuela must be to press for a democratic outcome through free and fair elections, and to help the Venezuelan people rebuild their country.” By Eli Lake. Full Text -> Bloomberg