Ruben Correa - Editor
Ruben Correa
Editor
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Mariachi-playing brothers and their parents are released from ICE custodyMar 10, 2026Two promising young mariachi musicians and their parents, who were being held in ICE detention for nearly two weeks after they were detained by the Department of Homeland Security in Texas, have been released, according to an X post from US Rep. Joaquin Castro, who met two of the brothers during their trip to Capitol Hill last year. -
US citizen was among those killed in Cuba speedboat shootout. Here’s what we knowFeb 27, 2026Cuba’s forces fatally shot four people, one of whom was a US citizen, on a Florida-registered speedboat that was trying to enter Cuban waters Wednesday and “infiltrate” the island, authorities said. -
Will the killing of ‘El Mencho’ set off turf wars and narco-terrorism across Mexico?Feb 24, 2026The killing of Jalisco cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera, aka “El Mencho,” could fuel a turf war among drug-trafficking gangs in Mexico, analysts say, with the rival Sinaloa cartel already riven by infighting. -
Venezuelan opposition figure Guanipa placed under house arrest after armed men detained him again following prison releaseFeb 10, 2026Key Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Pablo Guanipa has been placed under house arrest, his son said, two days after he was re-arrested by heavily armed men following his release from a jail where he was held as a political prisoner. -
Honduras issues arrest warrant for ex-president Hernández recently pardoned by TrumpDec 9, 2025Honduras’s attorney general said he has issued an arrest warrant for former President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was freed from US federal prison last week after being pardoned by President Donald Trump. -
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Court orders Trump administration to return another wrongly deported manJun 25, 2025A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of a Salvadoran man deported to his native country, just minutes after the same court ruled he shouldn’t be removed from the US. -
MIT is shuttering DEI office amid Trump administration’s push to end diversity programsMay 30, 2025The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced it will shut down its DEI office, joining a raft of universities scrambling to scale back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs amid President Donald Trump’s anti-diversity push. -
Two high-profile jailbreaks have grabbed headlines across the US. But Americans are used to being captivated by manhuntsMay 28, 2025On June 11, 1962, three prisoners escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison, a former US military base located on a small island off the coast of San Francisco. -
Man last known to be seen with missing University of Pittsburgh student tells prosecutors how he rescued her from rough waterMar 17, 2025The man last known to be seen with a University of Pittsburgh student before she vanished from a beach in the Dominican Republic gave more details to local prosecutors about the last time he saw her, Dominican news station Noticias SIN reported.
About
Ruben Correa is an Editor based in CNN’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong, supporting US news coverage under the company’s follow-the-sun news model.
Correa joined CNN in 2018 as a copy editor for CNN en Español, where he supported news production for TV and digital platforms and temporarily led the copy editors and writers’ team. He was part of the team that won an Emmy Award for coverage of the 2019 Barcelona riots. In 2020, he moved to the FactCheck team, editing English and Spanish content, and received another Emmy for his work on CNNE’s documentary “Narcofiles: el Tren de Aragua.”
Correa began his journalism career at 17, studying journalism at Escuela Superior de Periodismo and economics at the University of Buenos Aires. He has worked for The Wall Street Journal, Univision, Telemundo Internacional, S&P Global Platts, and various Argentine, Spanish and Mexican publications. He received the ADEPA-Reuters Financial Journalism Prize for investigative reporting and a Philip Morris Argentina Fellowship for business journalists.
Born in Buenos Aires to a Brazilian mother and Argentine father, Correa is bilingual in Spanish and Portuguese and has experience in translation and interpretation. Outside work, he is an award-winning fiction writer and avid photographer.
