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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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.
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There was an unspoken pact between narcos and civilians. It broke when ‘El Chapo’s’ son was captured

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There was an unspoken pact between narcos and civilians. It broke when ‘El Chapo’s’ son was captured

Culiacan has long been a city of open secrets.

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Watch the moment Mexican forces captured the son of ‘El Chapo’
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This was the moment Mexican forces captured the son of ‘El Chapo.’ Soon after, they freed him

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This was the moment Mexican forces captured the son of ‘El Chapo.’ Soon after, they freed him

A video shows Mexican forces were outgunned this month in a failed attempt to capture Sinaloa drug cartel chief Ovidio Guzman Lopez.
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Did jailing ‘El Chapo’ matter? In seizing a city, the Sinaloa cartel shows it’s still strong

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Did jailing ‘El Chapo’ matter? In seizing a city, the Sinaloa cartel shows it’s still strong

El Chapo is in prison, but Sinaloa cartel remains strong. “This is a city filled with drug lords,” a Mexican journalist said. “We have 20 ‘El Chapos’ here.”
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Eight killed in Mexico as cartel gunmen force authorities to release El Chapo’s son

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Eight killed in Mexico as cartel gunmen force authorities to release El Chapo’s son

Lawyers for the Guzman family held a televised news conference to thank President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for freeing the cartel boss.

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