Tim Padgett is the Americas Editor for WLRN, covering Latin America, the Caribbean and their key relationship with South Florida.
Source: https://www.wlrn.org/people/tim-padgett
Tim Padgett appears in the following:
The impact of Biden's popular humanitarian parole for migrants, one year later
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Cubans look to genealogy as a way off the island
Monday, July 17, 2023
A group of Spanish radio stations are being sold to a new democratic Latino group
Sunday, June 05, 2022
El Salvador Has Adopted Bitcoin As Legal Tender — The First Country To Do So
Tuesday, September 07, 2021
Colombian Officials' Role In The U.S. Election
Monday, October 05, 2020
CARES Act Leaves Out U.S. Citizens Married To Immigrants
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Opinion: Venezuela's Guaidó Is On A Long-Haul Mission. Are His U.S. Backers?
Thursday, May 02, 2019
Maduro Claims Victory as Venezuela's Humanitarian Crisis Deepens
Monday, May 21, 2018
Nikolas Cruz Booked On 17 Counts Of Premeditated Murder In Fla. Shooting
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Irma Heads to Florida After Ravaging the Caribbean
Thursday, September 07, 2017
For Many Central American Migrants, U.S. Border Is Now Beyond Reach
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
It seems the entire world is wrestling with immigration emergencies today. And lest you think the Western Hemisphere's crisis is over, consider the look on Oscar Ortega's face.
He just got a WhatsApp message that made his eyes pop.
Ortega directs the federal El Edén center in San Pedro Sula, ...
A Custody Battle That Shaped Diplomacy
Friday, July 24, 2015
How The Battle Over Elián González Helped Change U.S. Cuba Policy
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the end of the Elián González drama — the international custody battle that gave the cable news networks bizarre fodder for seven long months in 1999 and 2000.
Elián was a 5-year-old boy found drifting off the Florida coast after his mother drowned during ...
In Search Of Bandwidth, Cuban Entrepreneurs Head To Miami
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
When Cuban bikini maker Victor Rodríguez visited Miami this month, he was on a pilgrimage — not just for bathing suits but for bandwidth.
The most important stop on Rodríguez's schedule was lunch in Wynwood, Miami's high-tech district, with Mel Valenzuela, who owns the online swimwear store Pretty Beachy.
As ...
A Warning For Latin America's Faltering Economies: 'Innovate Or Die'
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
One look at the Brazilian flag and you think: This must be a space-age, high-tech country. That star-spackled orb in the middle glowing like a planetarium. The banner wrapped around it hailing "Order and Progress." Engineers must be rock stars there, right?
Unfortunately, no. And that's a big reason Brazil ...
Cuban Rafters Still Attempt Difficult Journey To The U.S.
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
Owed Billions By Venezuela, Airlines Cut Back On Flights There
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Panama's Canal Divides A Country Into Haves And Have-Nots
Sunday, June 01, 2014
Jorge Quijano has one of the coolest office views in the Americas: the Pacific port entrance to the Panama Canal. The panoramic vista seems to help Quijano, who heads the Panama Canal Authority, see the bigger picture.
On the one hand, Quijano understands why Panama has run the canal so ...
WFUV Presents: Sharon Van Etten
Sunday, June 01, 2014
Building on the success of her third album, Tramp, Sharon Van Etten decided that the next direction to take was her own. So Are We There is her first self-produced album, recorded with her stellar band and some assistance from veteran producer Stewart Lerman.
Van Etten recently brought that ...
Expanding The Panama Canal: The Problem Is Money, Not Mosquitoes
Saturday, May 31, 2014
When the United States built the Panama Canal a century ago, it faced harrowing obstacles, from mudslides to malaria that killed thousands. But history doesn't appear to show a financial dispute with contractors. At least not one that halted labor on the maritime marvel.
Fast forward a century, to a ...
