Mexico City bureau

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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.

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Tracy Wilkinson is Mexico City bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, where she has worked since 1987. She has been the paper’s bureau chief in San Salvador, Vienna (from which she covered the Balkans conflict), Jerusalem and Rome. Her reports have won the Overseas Press Club and George Polk awards, and she is the author of “The Vatican’s Exorcists: Driving Out the Devil in the 21st Century,” published in 2007.

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Daniel Hernandez is a news assistant in The Times’ Mexico City bureau.