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. He has been an adult literacy volunteer and is a member of the Catholic poverty aid organization St. Vincent de Paul.
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Russia "won't rule out" sending military to the Americas if the U.S. keeps aiding Ukraine. Washington is warning Moscow not to act on its "bluster." -
Latin America's most prosperous country was long considered one of its most conservative. But is Chile now becoming one of the region's most progressive?
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COMMENTARY What Joan Didion foresaw in Miami 35 years ago — U.S. democracy's frailty — is as important as the dangerous "cognitive dissonance" she did see.
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Mario Antonio Palacios was headed back to Colombia when, on a stopover in Panama, authorities put him on a plane to Miami — where U.S. authorities charged him.
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In 2021, leftists won presidencies in every Latin American election but one, including Peru and Chile. In 2022, they could take Brazil and Colombia too. Why?
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In 2021, leftists won presidencies in every Latin American election but one, including Peru and Chile. In 2022, they could take Brazil and Colombia too. Why?
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Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley — who led her island's drive to be a republic and has emerged as a Caribbean leader — has called an election for Jan. 19.
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Cuba says it doesn't have enough paper to print food ration books for 2022 — an ironic sign of how worse the communist island's economy keeps getting.
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The good news in Latin America and the Caribbean: much of the region turned vaccination tragedy into triumph. The bad news? Just about everything else.
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COMMENTARY Ron DeSantis doesn't let the Constitution stop him from conducting federal policy. Let's hope he'll tackle the source of illegal immigration.
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'Haiti now is a country of tragedy.' Miami expat looks for a friend missing in the Cap-Haïtien blastBecause "gas is like gold" in economically collapsed Haiti today, scores of victims ran toward an upended gasoline truck to get its spilled fuel. Then it exploded.
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The traditional Christmas procession festival, cancelled last year by COVID-19, is an expression of Mexican and Latino identity — and, lately, an immigration statement.
