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 a Livingston Awards finalist in 2018, was part of the team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news 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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14 police officers killed in an ambush in Mexico, testing president’s security strategy

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14 police officers killed in an ambush in Mexico, testing president’s security strategy

The police officers were killed early Monday in western Mexico, the latest in a series of high-casualty attacks by criminal groups across the country.
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Mexicans are killing each other at record rates. The U.S. provides the guns

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Mexicans are killing each other at record rates. The U.S. provides the guns

Despite strict gun laws, Mexico is in the grips of an arms race.
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Death, made in Mexico: Traffickers embrace fentanyl

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Death, made in Mexico: Traffickers embrace fentanyl

The synthetic drug is the leading culprit in the U.S. opioid epidemic. Most comes from Mexico, where traffickers have embraced it over heroin.
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Extreme acts of violence in Mexico are on the rise: 27 burned to death at a strip club

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Extreme acts of violence in Mexico are on the rise: 27 burned to death at a strip club

An attack on a Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, bar killed 27 and injured about a dozen. The attackers started a fire that ripped through the bar Caballo Blanco.
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Guatemala, simmering with discontent, shows little enthusiasm for the presidential election

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Guatemala, simmering with discontent, shows little enthusiasm for the presidential election

This weekend, as Guatemalans head to the ballot box to choose the successor to the termed-out President Jimmy Morales, the mood among voters is bleak.
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Foreign countries are warning their citizens about U.S. travel after mass shootings

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Foreign countries are warning their citizens about U.S. travel after mass shootings

Uruguay and Venezuela are warning their citizens to exercise caution in the United States after a string of mass shootings.
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A whole generation of migrant kids is languishing at the U.S.-Mexico border

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A whole generation of migrant kids is languishing at the U.S.-Mexico border

A generation of migrant kids is languishing at the U.S.-Mexico border — pawns in an adult’s dispute.
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ACLU sues to stop new policy blocking asylum seekers at U.S.-Mexico border

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ACLU sues to stop new policy blocking asylum seekers at U.S.-Mexico border

The Trump administration said it would deny asylum to migrants who failed to apply for protection in at least one country they crossed on their journey north.
Un bar queer en la Ciudad de México resiste los ataques de odio con dos poderosos ingredientes: amor y cumbia

Un bar queer en la Ciudad de México resiste los ataques de odio con dos poderosos ingredientes: amor y cumbia

El 3 de mayo era como cualquier otra noche de viernes en La Cañita, un bar y restaurante con temática de playa, ubicado en un barrio de clase trabajadora cerca del centro de la Ciudad de México.
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Mexico’s finance minister quits abruptly, sending peso tumbling

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Mexico’s finance minister quits abruptly, sending peso tumbling

Mexico’s finance secretary abruptly resigned Tuesday over disagreements with the left-wing government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, which he accused of fiscal “extremism.”