Tim Padgett
Americas editorTim Padgett is the Americas editor for Miami NPR affiliate WLRN, covering Latin America, the Caribbean and their key relationship with South Florida.
Padgett has reported on Latin America for more than 30 years - including for Newsweek as its Mexico City bureau chief and for Time as its Latin America and Miami bureau chief - from the end of Central America's civil wars to the normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations. He has interviewed more than 20 heads of state.
In 2005, Padgett received Columbia University’s Maria Moors Cabot Prize for his body of work in Latin America. In 2016 he won a national Edward R. Murrow award for the radio series "The Migration Maze," about the brutal causes of - and potential solutions to - Central American migration.
Padgett is an Indiana native and a graduate of Wabash College. He received a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School and studied in Caracas, Venezuela, at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Hehas been an adult literacy volunteer and is a member of the Catholic poverty aid organization St. Vincent de Paul.
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After the opposition recently signaled willingness to negotiate with Venezuela's authoritarian president, he says he ready to start the conversation, with Norway as the intermediary. -
Nicaraguan strongman Daniel Ortega has thrown more than 20 presidential candidates and opposition leaders in jail this summer. What should the U.S. and world do?
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Hundreds of Cuban families on the island, and in Miami, say they need international leverage to help determine their arrested relatives' whereabouts and status.
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With more than 500 anti-government protesters believed locked up in Cuba, President Biden is looking to help families there without helping the regime.
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Haiti's prime minister says he'll step down to make way for a new post-assassination government — and Cuban dissidents insist anti-regime protests are far from over.
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COMMENTARY The clique that claims to speak for Black Lives Matter is shamelessly clueless on Cuba. So are right-wingers when it comes to the BLM movement.
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Even after Cuba's communist regime shut down the internet this week, Cubans made sure the world still saw their protests — and the brutal response to them.
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Many exiles want U.S. troops sent to Cuba to protect protesters from brutality. Many others say that rhetoric gives the regime an excuse for worse repression.
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Many expats feel their economic contribution to Haiti merits political clout, too. But the murder of Haiti's president may prompt a reality check for the diaspora.
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Haitian Police Say Four Presidential Assassination Suspects Killed, Two Arrested; Shootouts ContinueHaiti's National Police chief said his forces had engaged the alleged assassins of President Jovenel Moïse in the same neighborhood where the murder occurred.
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Haitian Prime Minister — and now interim president — Claude Joseph declared a state of emergency after gunmen killed President Jovenel Moise in his home.
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Gunmen stormed the Haitian president's home early Wednesday morning, killing him and wounding his wife. The act follows months of frightening criminal violence.
