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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Former President Trump told Fox News he’s targeting the more than half a million Cuban, Venezuelan, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants who’ve come here legally under a humanitarian parole program. -
COMMENTARY: Donald Trump's abhorrent lies have perhaps permanently refashioned Americans' sense of immigration reality — the way climate change has resigned them to ovenlike heat — and may very well help him win in November. -
American photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg's new book — Legacy of Lies: El Salvador 1981-84 — revisits one of the Cold War's bloodiest proxy conflicts, and the U.S.'s complicity in it, for readers who can still see its effects today. -
Over the weekend, Brazilian diplomats accused Spain’s socialist government of allowing Maduro’s political enforcers into the Spanish embassy in Caracas while González took refuge there. -
The bill would raise the U.S. Justice Department’s bounty, on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from the current $15 million to $100 million. -
COMMENTARY This week's Fed rate cut is a reminder we should keep promoting autonomous central banks in Latin America — but Tua Tagovailoa's concussion crisis argues against exporting football there. -
Former President and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's new video takes a salsa swipe at his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, while she starts a $3 million push to reach Hispanic voters in swing states. -
COMMENTARY If Florida falsehood-mongers want to spread lies about Haitians in Ohio, they should be fair demonizers and push the lie that all Ohioans commit felonies in Florida. What about OUR pets?! -
The worldwide left has long been prone to apologize for Latin America's authoritarian leftist regimes — but a younger generation's response to socialist Venezuela's electoral fraud is challenging that impulse. -
COMMENTARY Amid this election, we have to figure out how to keep toxic disinformation like X's from undermining U.S. democracy — while remembering that protecting the rights of even Musk muck is what underpins U.S. democracy. -
COMMENTARY Donald Trump undoubtedly sees in the U.S. Supreme Court's new, reckless notion of presidential immunity the same carte blanche Venezuela's high court just handed dictator Nicolás Maduro. -
COMMENTARY The vicious election denialism we're watching in Venezuela should warn us about a repeat of Jan. 6 here if Trump loses — and of the responsibility leaders like Miami's GOP Congress members have to prevent it.
