Tim Padgett
Americas EditorTim Padgett is the Americas Editor for 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. He has been an adult literacy volunteer and is a member of the Catholic poverty aid organization St. Vincent de Paul.
Contact Tim at tpadgett@wlrnnews.org
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COMMENTARY The left-wing madness we're seeing in Latin America in this century so often gets a pass thanks to the right-wing madness that prevailed in the last century. -
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to the massive Everglades restoration project dissected in the WLRN podcast Bright Lit Place is the water polluted by phosphorous and other nutrients that run off from sugar cane farms.
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Former U.S. ambassador Manuel Rocha is charged with spying for Cuba. He may have been driven by resentments — and may have done great harm to national security.
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In a Sunday referendum, Venezuelan voters OK'd their authoritarian regime's proposal to make two-thirds of Guyana a Venezuelan state — but critics call it a diversion ploy.
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Since a cache of high-power guns was seized in Port-au-Prince last year, a baroque conspiracy has emerged that showcases the Florida links to Haiti's heavily armed gangs.
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Inter-American Development Bank brass visited Miami this week to launch a new Bid for the Americas effort, hoping to expand U.S.-Latin America business and trade ties.
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COMMENTARY There's a lot of focus on the potential threat to Argentina's democracy from its president-elect, but the Argentine pope has his own anti-democratic issues.
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Right-winger Javier Milei's landslide presidential victory on Sunday was more crushing among expats — many of whom left Argentina to flee chronic economic crises.
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COMMENTARY Sunday's reactionary populism-versus-smug liberalism clash in Argentina holds lessons for next year's U.S. presidential race between Trump and Biden.
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COMMENTARY Trump's rally in Hialeah — and a nearby forum on Latin American democracy hours before — are reminders of his toxic effect on the hemisphere.
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After more than a century of immigration to Latin America and the Caribbean, the region's large Arab diaspora wields large influence in favor of the Palestinian cause.
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Jewish and Muslim community leaders tell WLRN about the disturbing increase in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents in South Florida.
