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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Miami's iconic Spanish-language radio station WAQI — Radio Mambí — will take its news and talk programming off the air, in a further sign that an effort to create more moderate Latino broadcasting in South Florida hasn't panned out. -
COMMENTARY Could this week's mayoral election in Miami — the self-proclaimed capital of Latin America — reflect the broader challenges Trump's bid for alpha control of the hemisphere faces? -
Two U.S. Navy F-18 fighter jets flew into Venezuelan airspace on Tuesday in an apparent intensification of the Trump administration's pressure on the Maduro regime and drug traffickers. -
As many South Florida immigrants suddenly find citizenship and green card processes paused, even Republicans like Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar are voicing criticism. -
COMMENTARY President Trump's pardon of a former Honduran president and convicted drug trafficker follows the South Florida exile doctrine that Latin American conservatives are never guilty. -
The murder and immolation of Bazelais Merantus, a disabled man praised as kind and resilient, underscores the worsening savagery of Haiti's gangs as they move beyond Port-au-Prince. Can a new multinational police initiative stop them? -
Trump administration ends Temporary Protected Status for Haitians — in spite of gang terror in HaitiOfficials announced the administration is cancelling Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Haitian immigrants in the U.S. — even though the U.N. says conditions inside Haiti remain horrific. -
In partnership with the Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center in North Miami, the lawyers are disbursing thousands of dollars in aid to hundreds of families. They are urging further contributions as the holidays start.
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COMMENTARY Haiti's remarkable qualification for the 2026 soccer World Cup won't rescue it from the country's gangs — but it reminds us that Haiti undoubtedly is worth saving from that monstrous evil. -
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will take part in a week-long University of Miami law school conference that hopes to raise alarms about faltering democratic norms in the hemisphere. -
COMMENTARY Latin America's inability if not refusal to make its law enforcement more 21st-century has only helped open the door to Trump's use of 20th-century-style military intervention in the region. -
As U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean looks aimed at Venezuela's dictatorship, the country's currency is plunging and prices are spiking — raising fears of a new hyperinflation crisis.
