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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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.
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Immigration advocates and employers say Florida's new Anti-Illegal Immigration Law is already spurring migrant workers to leave the state — even those with legal status. -
U.S. intelligence said the mysterious illnesses in Havana don't look to be part of an attack. But rhetoric since hints it won't improve U.S.-Cuba relations much. -
Former Nicaraguan presidential candidate and political prisoner Félix Maradiaga recently returned to exile in Miami after being released by the Ortega dictatorship. He spoke to WLRN's Tim Padgett about his 'torture' behind bars, the reunion with his family and his renewed resolve to fight. -
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas insisted the new parole policy has relieved the border crisis — and so questioned why Republicans oppose it. -
South Florida advocates of the White House's new immigration policy say they're confronting social media misinformation in the Haitian community. -
Since Gov. DeSantis declared the migrant wave in the Keys an emergency, some migrants' families say they want better communication.
