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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In Miami, Organization of American States Secretary General Luis Almagro said Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has stolen "his own people's electoral sovereignty." -
COMMENTARY Coddling apologists on the left and get-tough hardliners on the right loudly insist they have the solution to Venezuela's electoral fraud crisis. They don't. -
Opposition poll worker vigilance has all but confirmed Venezuela's dictatorial regime committed massive election fraud, but experts fear only the military can turn that consensus into regime change — and so far no cracks are visible in its ranks. -
COMENTARIO: El fraude electoral criminal de Nicolás Maduro cementa su lugar en la galería de los dictadores venezolanos — y destruye de una vez por todas la tradición fundadora de su “revolución” socialista podrida. -
COMMENTARY Nicolás Maduro's criminal electoral fraud cements his place in Venezuela's gallery of notorious dictators — and destroys his rotted revolution's founding lore.
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After Venezuela's opposition and many other observers accused the authoritarian regime of massive voter fraud in Sunday's presidential election, expats voiced alarm. -
Nicolás Maduro and his regime have made sure millions of expats can't vote in Sunday's presidential election in Venezuela. The diaspora in South Florida and across the world has responded by quietly organizing to make sure Venezuelans in the country can — and do. -
COMMENTARY The loutish example of soccer bosses like Ramón Jesurún helps explain the hooligan behavior of soccer fans like those who stormed Hard Rock Stadium at the Copa America final. -
COMMENTARY More Latinos today are apt to identify with a conservative white Cuban like Florida Senator Marco Rubio — so he's likely to be Donald Trump's running mate. -
A half century later, "Como la Cigarra" is still Latin America's iconic hymn of anti-dictatorship defiance — even though it was written by a composer of children's songs. -
COMMENTARY By not stepping aside, President Biden risks imitating the egotism he rightly condemns in Trump — and which America says it warns Latin America against. -
Hurricane Beryl rapidly intensified to become the earliest Category 4 storm in recorded history. As it struck Carriacou island with 150mph winds, Grenadian community leaders in Miami say they expect the worst. It does not bode well for a season already forecast to be above average.
