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 35 years — including for Newsweek as its Mexico City bureau chief and for Time as its Latin America and Miami bureau chief — and he has interviewed more than 20 heads of state, from Mexico to Brazil.
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 President Trump may be following a brazen and brutish version of the Monroe Doctrine on issues like Greenland — but the world shouldn't be shocked that it still lingers in U.S. policy. -
COMMENTARY With no conquest booty like oil to distract him, President Trump could focus the capture of gang leaders in Haiti on rescuing the country's republic — and win his Nobel Peace Prize. -
A new survey of Venezuelans inside Venezuela indicates that while they applaud President Trump's ouster of their dictator, they think he's more interested in their oil — and they strongly disagree with him about María Corina Machado. -
People close to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado's political team say the Nobel Peace Prize winner is considering a visit to the diaspora in Miami after she meets Thursday with President Trump — who this month disparaged her prospects of governing Venezuela. -
COMMENTARY President Trump's "law enforcement" capture of Venezuela's dictator will be regarded a failure if it doesn't mean democracy restoration — which may require more U.S. military force. -
Though "jarred" by President Trump's snub of opposition leader María Corina Machado, expats say they accept a transition to democracy in Venezuela will take time — and in the meantime they'll push the regime to accelerate it.
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ANALYSIS Acting President Delcy Rodríguez is a dark, hardline "architect" of Venezuela's dictatorship — so why has the Trump administration bet she'll lead the country to the light of democracy after Nicolás Maduro's stunning U.S. military ouster? -
Venezuelans interviewed in Weston and Doral — cities with the largest concentration of Venezuelan-Americans in the nation — said they are ecstatic over Maduro’s ouster from their beloved homeland, and are hopeful of a promising future for their homeland. -
The Saturday celebrations in Doral and across Venezuela's vast global diaspora belie the reality that despite dictator Nicolás Maduro's capture by U.S. forces, his socialist regime appears to remain intact — and could be for a while.
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The U.S. reportedly bombed a drug-trafficking launch base inside Venezuela last month — a major escalation of an intimidation campaign against dictator Nicolás Maduro that was likely rehearsed earlier when Navy fighter jets flew over the Gulf of Venezuela. -
COMMENTARY King Herod — a monstrous Biblical ruler who in the Christmas legend forced Jesus' family to flee their country — has plenty of modern heirs driving our hemisphere's migrant crisis today. -
More than two weeks after its Nov. 30 presidential election, Honduras has yet to finish counting the votes — raising fears of a new hemispheric crisis that critics say President Trump helped cause.
