Tim Padgett

The official cheap liquor of spring breakers is becoming something much more sophisticated. And South Florida has become ground zero for the rum revolution.

Heaven Is For Real, about a 4-year-old who sees a vision of heaven during surgery, appears at No. 2.

Here's something you probably didn't know: Salvadorans are poised to pass Cubans as the third-largest Latino group in the United States, behind Mexicans and Puerto Ricans.

There are 2 million Salvadorans in the U.S. That's almost a third of the entire population of El Salvador itself, Central America's smallest country. ...

Leopoldo López is a rock star to Venezuelans living in the United States. But in west Caracas he's the rich guy. And those contrasting images could affect the outcome of street protests playing out in Venezuela right now.

But first the obvious: This week's arrest of López, a top Venezuela ...

I bought Francisco Lima his first taste of freedom in decades.

A cheeseburger.

It was 2004, and Brazil was starting to confront one of its most distressing problems: slavery. I was in northern Pará state, in the Amazon, observing a special police unit that raided slaveholding farms and ...

Last week's tsunami-like surge in the Philippines might be far away, but there's another vulnerable coast line right in our backyard: The Caribbean. Rising sea levels could have consi...

Earlier this week, Michel “Sweet Micky” Martelly -- a flamboyant Kompa musician-turned-politician -- was announced as the presumed winner of Haiti's presidential election. The political newcomer earned an overwhelming 67% of the vote. But he also inherits the reigns to a nation in turmoil, still very much in recovery from 2010's devastating earthquake. Tim Padgett, TIME's Miami & Latin America bureau chief, joins us to reflect on Martelly’s win.