British-born, Adams came to the United States in the summer of 1992 after five years as a freelance correspondent in Central America. He spent 15 years as the Miami-based Latin America correspondent of the Tampa Bay Times, Florida’s largest newspaper. During a career spanning four decades he has covered the civil wars in Central America, the U.S. invasion of Panama, the Zapatista uprising in Mexico and other historic events in Cuba and Haiti as well as U.S. politics and immigration issues.