Tim Padgett is the Americas Editor for WLRN, covering Latin America, the Caribbean, and their key relationship with South Florida. With over 30 years of experience in reporting on regional interest and world news, Padgett focuses on elections, government, and public policy, as well as travel and tourism issues. He has been featured in notable publications such as the Miami Herald, NPR, and the Orlando Sentinel.
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Tim Padgett's coverage is heavily focused on government and politics, with a specific interest in issues related to Venezuela, Latin America, and South Florida. He frequently seeks expert commentary and writes opinion editorials.
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By: Tim Padgett
A little over a month after earthquakes devastated neighboring Venezuela, western Colombia is now reeling from a powerful quake that struck Monday morning. For South Florida, nonprofits like Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) in Doral are again the focus of relief aid donations.
By: Tim Padgett
COMMENTARY Democratic Socialists will complain if right-wing President Trump tries to block their election in America — but they rarely if ever denounce left-wing election theft in Latin America.
By: Tim Padgett
With a decided name-recognition advantage over his opponent, former Miami TV news anchorman Eliott Rodriguez won the Democratic nomination in Florida's 27th congressional district — and could present the Republican incumbent, three-term Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, with her first serious challenge in November.
By: Tim Padgett
COMMENTARY Sending soldiers into the drug war is more performative than productive — and takes a heavier human toll than the law enforcement we should be promoting in Latin America does.
By: Tim Padgett
Key West immigrant advocates said almost 30 migrants were detained there over the weekend — including the father of a U.S. Navy sailor who's been serving aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Lincoln in support of the Iran war.
By: Tim Padgett
The hundreds of thousands of Haitians who've lost their TPS shield against being deported to a home country ruled by murderous gangs are in virtual hiding in cities like North Miami, where mothers "pray my children don't see me taken by ICE when I have to pick them up at school."
By: Tim Padgett
COMMENTARY The rotting effects of Venezuela's half-century-long oil corruption made its industry easy prey for Trump — whose real outrage is blocking the re-democratization that could fix that flaw.
By: Tim Padgett
After an unconfirmed media report this week that 95-year-old Cuban leader Raúl Castro is on life support in Havana, Miami is abuzz with rumors reminiscent of the decade of bogus news that preceded his brother Fidel's death in 2016. "For younger Cubans and more recently arrived Cuban exiles in Miami, Raúl is their dictator. Raúl is their Fidel," said one observer.
By: Tim Padgett
The opposition oversight, imposed by the first Trump administration, was meant to help weaken Venezuela’s repressive socialist dictatorship. “The Trump administration will now own Citgo,” a Venezuela expert said. It's another sign President Trump is more interested in drilling Venezuela’s oil than in restoring its democracy.
By: Tim Padgett
Muslims in America faced a convulsion of Islamophobia after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by Islamist terrorists — and young Muslims who watched their community's fear then are seeing the same 'clash of civilizations' bigotry today.
