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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Venezuela's authoritarian regime continues to ramp up repression in response to U.S. pressure — and it's now arrested eminent human rights activist Rocío San Miguel
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COMMENTARY It's sad but apt that a sensible conservative like former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera dies as sensible conservatism is being killed in the U.S.
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COMMENTARY Too many immigrant advocates forget the U.S. needs to reform asylum and aid Ukraine — and that doing both can help ease America's border crisis.
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In Havana, regime hardliners consider private enterprises a threat. In Miami, exile hardliners call them a lie. But to most Cubans, they're the only thing that works.
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COMMENTARY Florida's orgy of homophobic lawmaking seeks to make LGBTQ people invisible in the 21st century — just as Cuba's Fidel Castro did in the 20th.
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The kidnapping of six Roman Catholic nuns in Haiti comes amid a new surge of gang violence that may get worse as angry calls mount for the Prime Minister to step down.
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Latinos are still more likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID — so doctors and activists hope younger, more educated voices can convince the vulnerable to get the shots.
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COMMENTARY I once compared Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. But Chávez was a nationally electable politico. It appears DeSantis is not.
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COMMENTARY The gang poison plaguing Ecuador and Latin America is largely a result of what many say is its antidote: the trashing of democratic institutions by la mano dura.
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COMMENTARY Because Venezuela's humanitarian crisis — and the U.S. border crisis — owe so much to Alex Saab's alleged corruption, his freedom could prolong both.
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claims former Colombian President Iván Duque ordered the killing of Maduro's alleged money-laundering maestro in 2020.
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Alex Saab, an alleged mastermind of the Venezuelan regime's epic corruption, was awaiting trial in Miami until he was swapped for American prisoners held in Venezuela.