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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COMMENTARY Brazil's president once steered between left and right. Likening Venezuela's democratic opposition to Russia's Ukraine invasion suggests he's crashed. -
South Florida advocates of the White House's new immigration policy say they're confronting social media misinformation in the Haitian community.
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Florida's Brazilian expats enthusiastically support former President Jair Bolsonaro — and his election denialism. But after Jan. 8, they too are under scrutiny.
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COMMENTARY Miami — and its exile leaders — too often rely on dubiously fast-track solutions to genuinely long-haul problems. Like the failed Venezuelan Guaidó gambit.
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COMMENTARY Having Pelé's dignified memory hanging in the air helps us understand what's at stake after the degrading attack in Brasília by Bolsonaristas.
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Since Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared the migrant wave in the Keys an emergency, some migrants' families say they want better communication.
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COMMENTARY What we're hearing from Cuban and Haitian migrants now is what they've been telling us decade after decade. Let's get real about their misery.
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Exile Andy Gomez needed to answer his grandsons' questions about Cuba — and why he left it. So the University of Miami scholar wrote a children's book.
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COMMENTARY If Trump and Bolsonaro ring in 2023 in Palm Beach together, they probably won't discuss why the hemisphere repudiated their madness in 2022.
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The buñuelo is one of the most popular Christmas foods not just for Colombians but a number of Latin American cultures. And yet outside the Latino community – even in South Florida – it’s generally unknown.
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Visitors like an Orlando couple in Machu Picchu for their anniversary are seeing up close the protests in support of Peru's ousted leftist president Pedro Castillo.
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Almost 18 months after President Biden nominated him, former FIU Latin America center director Frank Mora will now be sworn in as U.S. envoy to the O.A.S. next month.
