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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Exile Andy Gomez needed to answer his grandsons' questions about Cuba — and why he left it. So the University of Miami scholar wrote a children's book. -
The buñuelo is one of the most popular Christmas foods not just for Colombians but a number of Latin American cultures. And yet outside the Latino community – even in South Florida – it’s generally unknown. -
Visitors like an Orlando couple in Machu Picchu for their anniversary are seeing up close the protests in support of Peru's ousted leftist president Pedro Castillo. -
Florida's progressive and moderate Latino Democrats are at sharp odds after watching more of the state's Latino voters flock to the GOP in midterm elections. -
The border crisis and Cuba's economic desperation may make cooperation necessary again. Former Rep. Joe Garcia, who leads an effort to promote U.S. engagement with Cuba, discusses the challenges. -
Last week's midterm elections hardened the contrast between GOP-embracing Florida Latinos and Democrat-leaning Latinos elsewhere. Is it permanent? -
Florida's Republican-Latino bond helped turn Miami-Dade County red this week. But a poll shows the national Latino red turn the GOP wanted didn't happen. -
Latin American migrant workers help fill Florida's construction worker shortage. But many feel overlooked by hurricane relief — and demonized. -
After Hurricane Fiona left Puerto Rico under island-wide blackout and flooding, the South Florida diaspora wants to avoid the relief mistakes it witnessed in 2017. -
After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew dozens of mostly Venezuelan undocumented migrants to Massachusetts, South Florida immigration activists called it inhumane.
