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Ken Ellingwood, Correspondent
Ken Ellingwood, a Times staff writer since 1992, is based in Mexico City, with responsibility for covering Mexico and Central America. He was previously based in Jerusalem and covered Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He also reported from Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon. Before joining the foreign staff in 2003, Ellingwood was the newspaper's bureau chief in Atlanta, where he covered a six-state swath of the American South. From 1998 to 2002, Ellingwood covered the U.S.-Mexico border, based in San Diego, and is the author of "Hard Line: Life and Death on the U.S.-Mexico Border." He earlier held a number of local beats, from the San Gabriel Valley to police and courts in Orange County, while on the Times staff in southern California. EMAILThe discovery is the first sign of a major outbreak of drug cartel violence in Yucatan.
President Calderon proposes new anti-kidnapping squads, special prisons, cellphone tracking and aid for local forces.
MEXICO UNDER SIEGE
Gov. Jose Reyes Baeza calls on federal authorities to reform their strategy after 13 people are killed in a weekend shooting.
Citizen anti-crime groups release audio they say demonstrates that the former Tabasco attorney general colluded with drug traffickers. He denies it.
Felipe Calderon urges Congress to act on his proposal after a 14-year-old abductee was found dead.
Smooth granite carved with nearly 30,000 names honors those slain or disappeared in the 1980s civil war, and the list keeps growing.
The party faces more disarray after annulling a disputed leadership vote. The move comes amid its plan to fight a proposal to broaden private investment in the state-owned oil monopoly.
Colombian suppliers have increasingly used small, semi-submersibles to try to smuggle drugs north toward their eventual markets, mainly in the U.S.
As violence has soared, more than 30 reporters have died or disappeared in Mexico since 2000, the group Reporters Without Borders says.
The raid last week in a gritty Mexico City neighborhood ended with a dozen people being killed in a stampede.
A national measure restricts lighting up in public indoor places and a municipal one bans it. Some people are confused.
Though some express hope that the Israeli-Palestinian summit will spark change, many in the troubled region see it as little more than a symbolic gesture.
COLUMN ONE
They make up one-fifth of the population, but are rarely seen on TV. A programmer adds shows and alters popular ones in a push to change that.
Struggle for the heart of a holy city
The Los Angeles Times looks at Jerusalem 40 years after the 1967 war.
A battle of attrition over land and identity.
As barrier goes up, Arabs move back into the city.
Secular Israelis are leaving Jerusalem, reducing its Jewish population.
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