Politics & Society Dispatches
Tim PadgettDecember 15, 2017Hallacas are unique among the other tamales popular in Latin America.
Politics & Society Dispatches
Tim PadgettNovember 16, 2017A cholera epidemic, last year’s Hurricane Matthew and political upheaval have made Haiti a dicey place to return to.
Politics & Society Dispatches
Tim PadgettOctober 15, 2017The alleged attacks started last fall and initially targeted U.S. agents stationed at the U.S. embassy in Havana.
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Tim PadgettSeptember 15, 2017Caribbean islands rarely get the Anderson Cooper treatment on cable news.
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Tim PadgettAugust 17, 2017South Florida may be known for its beaches, but it is also notorious for traffic and road rage.
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Tim PadgettJuly 17, 2017Rome is urging Venezuela President Maduro and his Chavistas to hold the elections they are now blocking, release hundreds of political prisoners like Mr. López and restore the democratic separation of powers they have mowed down.
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Tim PadgettJune 16, 2017Rising seas due to global warming have rendered the coastal high-water marks more obsolete by the day. That is especially true in the Miami area, which every media report on sea-level rise seems to profile as ground zero for deluge doom.
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Tim PadgettMay 16, 2017“Puerto Rico’s problem is that it’s an island of U.S. citizens who don’t have citizens’ rights—to vote in U.S. elections or have voting representatives in Congress.”
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Tim PadgettApril 18, 2017We are seeing rum rehabilitated. Rum respected. A rum revolution. Or as connoisseurs like to call it, a rum renaissance.
Politics & Society Dispatches
Tim PadgettMarch 20, 2017As a former tyrant languishes in a hospital bed, the U.S. should ponder its routine of coddling military monsters.