Tim Padgett
Tim Padgett is the Americas editor for Miami NPR affiliate 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 current 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. Hehas been an adult literacy volunteer and is a member of the Catholic poverty aid organization St. Vincent de Paul.
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President-elect Trump has pledged to deport millions of undocumented migrants — including a million in Florida — but the immigrants most vulnerable to his sweep may actually be those who are here legally. -
President-elect Donald Trump's 45% share of Latino voters set a record for a Republican presidential candidate — but the bigger surprise was his strong performance with Puerto Ricans, even after the "garbage" insult. -
The famed civil rights attorney said the police-involved shooting last month of Donald Armstrong is yet another disturbing instance when police officers fail to handle mental health-related emergency calls and routinely impose criminal charges to justify using lethal force. -
With Haiti's main airport still closed, Haitians in South Florida can only watch as gangs that control Port-au-Prince violently tear through their families' neighborhoods. -
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 vaccinated. -
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to the massive Everglades restoration project dissected in the WLRN podcast Bright Lit Place is the water polluted by phosphorous and other nutrients that run off from sugar cane farms. -
Jewish and Muslim community leaders tell WLRN about the disturbing increase in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents in South Florida. -
A year ago, the Biden administration started a humanitarian parole program for migrants escaping dictatorships and economic collapse in four countries. It hasn't stopped illegal border crossings.
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Venezuelans were the first to receive Biden's humanitarian parole — and while some call it a "miracle" ticket out of their crisis, others say they've grown impatient waiting for it. -
There's high demand by Cubans to research their ancestry with help from U.S.-based genealogy buffs. If they can tie it to Spain, it means a way off the island.
