Miami commissioner seeks playground review after boy's death at park
Olvin Cabrera Balladares, 13, was found inside a slide at Shenandoah Park on Sept. 25 and died Oct. 1, and his mother says a screw caught his shirt.
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Ivan Taylor is a bilingual, award-winning TV journalist who is a seasoned reporter with extensive live and breaking news experience from local and national news outlets.
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Other notable stories that Ivan has covered include a fire on Carnival's Ecstasy ship; an attempted coup in Venezuela and Hurricane Sandy in New York.
Ivan joined CBS 4 in November 2022. He previously worked as a consumer/investigative reporter and weekend anchor reporter at WLTV in Miami, as a national correspondent for Telemundo, where he covered Texas and as a weekend anchor/reporter at WNJU in New York/ New Jersey and as a weekend anchor/reporter at WSCV in Miami, where he began his career as a general assignment reporter.
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He was born in Nicaragua and moved to the U.S. with his parents in the 1980s because of the repression of the Sandinista regime.
Ivan graduated from Florida International University after attending Miami Dade College.
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Olvin Cabrera Balladares, 13, was found inside a slide at Shenandoah Park on Sept. 25 and died Oct. 1, and his mother says a screw caught his shirt.
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