Former Mexico City correspondent Richard Fausset left the Los Angeles Times in 2014.
April 16, 2014
World & Nation
The mayor of Lazaro Cardenas, a major commercial port city in Mexico’s troubled Michoacan state, has been arrested and accused of kidnapping, extortion and links to organized crime, officials said Monday.
April 28, 2014
MEXICO CITY—Three people were injured when a Mexican government helicopter became tangled in a zipline Friday and crashed in the state of Michoacan, where hundreds of security forces have arrived in recent days to quell a dispute between vigilante “self-defense” groups and the Knights Templar drug cartel.
Jan. 17, 2014
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, underwent a successful surgery Tuesday morning in which doctors removed blood that collected in the tissue outside her brain, a government spokesman said.
Oct. 8, 2013
MEXICO CITY -- At least 12 people were killed and many more injured Friday morning when a passenger bus overturned on a highway west of the Mexican capital, according to government and media reports.
Oct. 4, 2013
MEXICO CITY — The Pacific coast of Mexico, still smarting from the battering it took from a tropical storm last month, appears to have dodged another assault as a powerful storm moved away from the coast early Wednesday.
Oct. 23, 2013
Mexican government helicopter crashes in Michoacan; three injured
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico’s attorney general said Thursday that he has proof that some of the arms being used by the vigilante “self-defense” groups of Michoacan state were supplied by a drug cartel, the Jalisco New Generation, according to news reports.
Jan. 30, 2014
Bus plunges into ravine west of Mexico City; at least 12 killed
Mexico appears clear of storm that threatened Pacific coast