Kate Linthicum is a foreign correspondent based in Mexico City. Since joining the Los Angeles Times in 2008, she has covered immigration, local and national politics, and reported from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. A series of stories she wrote about Mexico’s homicide crisis earned her the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Foreign Correspondence. She has won two Overseas Press Club awards, is a two-time Livingston Awards finalist and was part of a team of journalists that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. She was raised in New Mexico and graduated from Barnard College.
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La investigación de Estados Unidos sobre dos gobernadores mexicanos sospechosos de colaborar con el crimen organizado amenaza con profundizar la creciente brecha entre Estados Unidos y el gobierno de Sheinbaum.
Former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a blistering statement accusing the Trump administration of using a narco-terrorism ‘pretext’ to weaken Mexico’s left.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum accused the U.S. of meddling in Mexico’s internal affairs after a report about two Mexican governors who had their U.S. visas revoked amid probes into possible links to organized crime.
The U.S. investigation into two Mexican governors suspected of working with organized crime threatens to deepen a growing rift between the U.S. and the Sheinbaum government.
Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, spoke with The Times about how Havana views the escalating conflict with the U.S.
As the U.S. upped pressure on Cuba, charging former President Raúl Castro with murder in connection to a 1996 attack on civilian planes, leaders of the island nation warned citizens to prepare for war.
A crusading Mexican mayor who battled cartels like a vigilante hero was assassinated, thrusting his widow into the fight he died leading.
A Mexico City nightclub went viral for charging Americans $300, and everyone else $20 or less.
More than 1. million Mexicans tried to get tickets to this week’s BTS shows in Mexico City. Many of those who failed showed up anyway.
La presidenta de México afirma que no arrestará a los funcionarios imputados por Estados Unidos por cargos de narcotráfico sin pruebas contundentes.