Ray Sánchez is an award-winning multimedia editor and writer who has covered national news, Latin America and the Caribbean for more than two decades.
Based in CNN's New York Bureau since 2013, Ray has written about topics ranging from the national debate over police conduct to the historic shift in US-Cuba relations to the Ebola outbreak.
Ray lived and worked as a correspondent in Havana for nearly three years, chronicling life in Cuba after Fidel Castro stepped down. He is coauthor of "The Duke of Havana," a book about the politics of baseball on the island.
His more than a decade as a senior writer, columnist and sports writer for New York Newsday included a four-year stint as Mexico City-based correspondent covering conflicts, economics and politics throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, reports on terrorism from New York to London and dispatches from the war in Iraq.
A member of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist team for Newsday's coverage of the New York blackout, Ray has also written for The Huffington Post, Reuters, Al Jazeera America and The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund.
He was an adjunct lecturer in journalism at City College of New York and co-winner of the Mike Berger Award for writing about New York from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Born in Manatí, Puerto Rico, and raised in the Bronx, Ray is a graduate of New York University and lives in Manhattan.
Washington University students march through a student lounge on the St. Louis campus as part of a nationwide walkout on Monday, December 1. Activists called for students to walk out of school and employees to walk off the job nationwide to protest police violence.
(CNN) -- Alan Gross, a U.S. government subcontractor imprisoned in Cuba for smuggling satellite equipment onto the island, is being held at Havana's Carlos J. Finlay Military Hospital. With peeling canary-yellow walls and hordes of people coming and going, the aging building doesn't look like a place where Cuba would hold its most valuable prisoner.
(CNN) -- On a fall night two years ago, Jackie, the alleged victim of a brutal gang rape, recounted her story in vivid detail to two friends. She recalled the assault for Ryan Duffin and Alex Stock on picnic tables at the quaint University of Virginia campus.
As Lee Ann Yanni got ready to run in this year's Boston Marathon, she made sure she had the silver stingray charm and necklace her father gave "his little girl" before he died of cancer. It is a talisman that back-to-back explosions at the 2013 marathon failed to rip from her body.
New York (CNN) -- Those two New York buildings where eight people died in an explosion were served by a very old gas main -- 127 years old to be exact. It's the latest incident in what experts warn is a dangerous trend plaguing the nation's oldest cities: natural gas leaks and aging infrastructure.
(CNN) -- In Manchester, New Hampshire, a small community is waiting. Men and women with ties to South Sudan hope to welcome home a neighbor's wife -- a Christian who made global headlines after a court in Sudan sentenced her to death because of her faith.
(CNN) -- In the early-morning stillness on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, William Rockefeller was manning the controls of a half full Metro-North train out of Poughkeepsie. The Hudson line train was hurtling along at 82 miles an hour, not within the speed limit of 30 mph, as it approached a sharp bend in the tracks in the Bronx.
(CNN) -- Before Saturday's police shooting of an African-American teenager, Ferguson, Missouri, was known as one of hundreds of municipalities designated by a national nonprofit as a "Playful City USA," a place where children are supposed to have access to more opportunities to play in their communities.
Patchogue, New York (CNN) -- In the December chill of Long Island, Joselo Lucero stands on the spot where seven teenagers attacked his brother and another Hispanic man five years ago as part of the pastime they made out of hunting and beating up Latinos.
(CNN) -- The families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner and other unarmed black men felled by bullets or police force filled a podium in the nation's capital. "This is a history-making moment," said Garner's mother, Gwen Carr. "It's just so overwhelming to see all who have come to stand with us.
(CNN) -- Harry Devert's motorcycle journey from the United States to Latin America is somewhat reminiscent of "The Motorcycle Diaries," which recount the South American travels of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara on an old motorbike in search of his insurgent spirit.
NEW YORK - Eudes was working the demolition crews three weeks after Hurricane Sandy tore through New York and New Jersey. First as a volunteer and, later, as a hired hand in the Breezy Point section of Queens, Eudes hoisted waterlogged couches and mattresses out of flooded basements.
