Leila Miller
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Leila Miller is a former foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times based in Mexico City. She joined the newsroom in 2018, where she spent several years covering criminal justice, including the Luz del Mundo sex abuse case, and was part of the team that was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist for its coverage of the Conception boat fire off the Channel Islands. She moved to Mexico in 2021 and was a 2023 Livingston finalist for an investigation on how a centuries-old forensic test has been sending mothers in Latin America to prison for killing their newborns. Born in Argentina but raised in Los Angeles, Miller is a graduate of Oberlin College and Columbia University’s School of Journalism.
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The growing popularity of magic mushrooms outside of Mexico has spurred a debate over who should have access to them and whether science and indigenous medicine can be reconciled
June 25, 2024
At the southernmost tip of Argentina’s Patagonia sits ‘the prison of the end of the world.’ The country banished prisoners here in the early 1900s to colonize the region.
Feb. 12, 2024
In Papantla, Mexico, once a major vanilla-producing city, the spice is still strongly tied to people’s identity.
Feb. 5, 2024
Vanilla is deeply rooted in the identity of Papantla, a city in eastern Mexico where reinas of festivals are anointed with a vanilla-made crown.
Feb. 5, 2024
Children across Mexico grow up learning the voladores ritual, where they fly around a 100-foot tree.
Dec. 20, 2023
Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei has shown public interest in Judaism, incorporating shofars at campaign rallies and visiting a rabbi’s tomb.
Dec. 9, 2023
After deadly Hurricane Otis made landfall in Mexico, communication with Acapulco was still mostly down. Hundreds of thousands were without electricity.
Oct. 26, 2023
Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, bringing 165 mph winds and heavy rain to Acapulco and nearby towns.
Oct. 25, 2023
Anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo won Guatemala’s presidency in a landslide, but now he faces what’s widely considered to be election interference.
Oct. 18, 2023
Mexico election: The two women frontrunners in the race for president both invoke gender and a cracking glass ceiling. So why are some feminists skeptical?
Aug. 15, 2023