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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Nov. 7, 2024
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Nov. 6, 2024
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Where do Kamala Harris and Donald Trump stand on foreign policy areas such as Mexico, NATO, Ukraine, Israel-Hamas and the Gaza war, China and the Koreas?
Oct. 22, 2024
Seven decades after Mexican women won the right to vote, Claudia Sheinbaum takes office as the country’s first female president,
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The $30-billion train line has come to symbolize the presidency of López Obrador, an ambitious, often divisive leader obsessed with cementing his legacy.
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