Kate Linthicum

Staff Writer

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 has reported from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She was part of a team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news, was a Livingston Awards finalist in 2018 and has won two Overseas Press Club awards. She was born in Texas, raised in New Mexico and graduated from Barnard College.

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Could Iran — and Hezbollah — strike in Latin America?

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Could Iran — and Hezbollah — strike in Latin America?

The Trump administration says Hezbollah is an active threat in Latin America. But it hasn’t presented much evidence of that.
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Mexico wouldn’t solve his father’s murder, so he had to do it himself

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Mexico wouldn’t solve his father’s murder, so he had to do it himself

Mexico tried to modernize its justice system, but it’s as easy as ever to get away with murder.

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Full Coverage: Murder in Mexico
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Protests erupt after Mexican hero Emiliano Zapata is depicted nude and in high heels

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Protests erupt after Mexican hero Emiliano Zapata is depicted nude and in high heels

The grandson of Gen. Emiliano Zapata is suing the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature over a painting in which the Mexican hero is observed riding a horse while wearing only high heels and a pink sombrero.
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Former Mexican security official arrested in U.S., accused of taking millions in bribes from ‘El Chapo’

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Former Mexican security official arrested in U.S., accused of taking millions in bribes from ‘El Chapo’

Genaro García Luna, a onetime top security official in Mexico, was charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine and with making false statements.
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Meet the Mexico City family keeping Beetlemania alive

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Meet the Mexico City family keeping Beetlemania alive

Throughout Mexico legions of fans remain devoted to the Volkswagen Beetle, or as it’s known, the “vocho.”
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Mexico’s rise in violence starts sticking to ‘Teflon president’ after a year in office

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Mexico’s rise in violence starts sticking to ‘Teflon president’ after a year in office

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected last year on his pledge to bring peace, but he faces record-high homicide rates and increased scrutiny of his security policies.
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Inside the bloody cartel war for Mexico’s multibillion-dollar avocado industry

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Inside the bloody cartel war for Mexico’s multibillion-dollar avocado industry

It’s not just drugs. Mexico’s cartels are fighting over avocados.
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Mormons mourn their massacred relatives in Mexico: ‘Our lives will never be the same’

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Mormons mourn their massacred relatives in Mexico: ‘Our lives will never be the same’

Memorial services begin in Mexico for Mormon family members killed this week.
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For Mexico ambush victims, there was no safety in numbers

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For Mexico ambush victims, there was no safety in numbers

The Mexican government has suggested the attack on members of a Mormon community was a case of mistaken identity. The victims’ relatives say the group was targeted.

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Massacre of U.S. citizens puts spotlight on Mormon community with deep roots in Mexico
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Trump calls for ‘war’ on drug cartels after 9 Americans killed in Mexico

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Trump calls for ‘war’ on drug cartels after 9 Americans killed in Mexico

The victims, three women and six children, were members of a fundamentalist Mormon sect that has been based for decades in a remote stretch of Mexico southwest of El Paso.