Patrick J. McDonnell is the Los Angeles Times Mexico City bureau chief and a foreign correspondent. Previously, he was bureau chief in Beirut, covering conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Libya and issues in Iran, Lebanon and Turkey. He covered the Iraq war as Baghdad correspondent/bureau chief and then roamed South America as Buenos Aires bureau chief. He began at The Times covering the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego/Tijuana and immigration issues. McDonnell is a native of the Bronx, where he majored in Irish-American studies and N.Y. Yankee fandom. He is a graduate of New York University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, was a Nieman fellow at Harvard and a 2014 Pulitzer finalist in international reporting for coverage from inside Syria.
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The farmworker who suffered fatal injuries while fleeing an immigration raid in Ventura County was buried in his Mexican hometown.
Casi la mitad de los inmigrantes mexicanos detenidos en redadas de ICE en el área de Los Ángeles han estado en Estados Unidos durante más de una década.
A controversial monument in Mexico City to the Marxist revolutionaries Fidel Castro and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara has been removed, setting off debates about their legacy and how to memorialize the past.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum plans a defamation case against the attorney for Ovidio Guzmán López, one of El Chapo’s sons.
Almost half of Mexican immigrants detained in ICE raids in the L.A. area have been in the U.S. for more than a decade.
By his own admission, Edgar Veytia ordered killings and torture and facilitated drug smuggling while he was governor of a Mexican state.
Mexico disputes U.S. money-laundering charges against banks allegedly linked to fentanyl trafficking
After U.S. Treasury officials accused three Mexican financial institutions of aiding drug cartels, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said there was “no proof” to the allegations.
News coverage of the immigration raids and protests in Southern California has transfixed Mexico, where reports have heavily sided with the immigrants against U.S. efforts to detain and deport them.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum encouraged violent protests in Los Angeles. Sheinbaum called the accusation “absolutely false.”