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 2019 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 the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. She was born in Texas, raised in New Mexico and graduated from Barnard College.
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Amid intense protests, Mexico’s Senate approves a constitutional change to elect judges by popular vote, a win for outgoing President López Obrador.
Sept. 11, 2024
Mexico’s outgoing president could be basking in triumphs. But Andrés Manuel López Obrador is pushing a radical overhaul to the judicial system that is spurring fear for democracy.
Sept. 9, 2024
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Sept. 2, 2024
Academic Oswaldo Zavala has pushed back at the notion that Mexico’s drug cartels are all-powerful, arguing that they could not exist without state support.
Aug. 28, 2024
Andrés Manuel López Obrador says Mexico’s communications with U.S. and Canadian embassies are ‘on pause’ after ambassadors criticized his plan for a judiciary overhaul.
Aug. 27, 2024
Mexico’s judges walked off the job following President Andres Manuel López Obrador’s plan to overhaul the judiciary, with judges elected not appointed.
Aug. 23, 2024
The Girl Scouts in this troop, in one of New York’s emergency migrant shelters, know hardship and loss. But at meetings at least, they get to be kids.
Aug. 20, 2024
Mexican officials are demanding answers from investigators in the case of a politician whose killing appears tied to the capture of Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada.
Aug. 18, 2024
Zambada, a Sinaloa cartel founder, was long believed to have police, soldiers, political leaders in his pocket. In a rare public statement, he acknowledges those ties -- and contradicts Mexican officials’ version of his capture.
Aug. 10, 2024
Amid eroding trust between the U.S. and Mexico on security issues, Mexican officials were caught off guard by the arrest of Sinaloa cartel leaders Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada García and Joaquín Guzmán López.
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