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Kate Linthicum

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international correspondent for the Los Angeles Times

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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: The U.S. deported a torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he was immediately jailed again. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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U.S. sends torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he is immediately jailed again
Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Migrants were shot at close range by pepper balls, strapped to stretchers and forced on a plane heading to Africa. My story on ICE's violent deportation flights, and a group of Nicaraguan, Cuban, Afghan and Iranian asylum-seekers now living in Bangui. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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‘I’d rather die here than in Africa’: Migrants describe violent deportation flight
More than 25,000 people have been expelled to 'third countries' under Trump, including to dangerous and conflict-ridden nations such as the Central Africa Republic.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Journalists and dissidents seeking asylum in the U.S. after being persecuted by Nicaragua's authoritarian government are now targeted for deportation under Trump. That includes even former political prisoners whom the U.S. helped free and flew to Washington in 2023. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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He exposed Nicaragua’s dictatorship. Now, the U.S. wants to deport him there
Journalists, human rights advocates and dissidents who were persecuted in Nicaragua and sought safety in the U.S. are increasingly being targeted for deportation.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Michoácan produces 2 million metric tons of avocados each year, mostly for export to the U.S. The industry has brought enormous wealth - but also terror. I wrote about a family and a town transformed for the worst by the lucrative avocado trade. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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In this small Mexican town, avocados were a lifeline — and a curse
In Mexico's verdant avocado-growing region, locals are forced to form armed self-defense militias to protect their land and search for loved ones lost to cartel violence.
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Columbia Journalism School @columbiajournalism.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🌎 Meet the 2026 Cabot Prize winners, recipients of the world’s oldest international journalism awards! Founded in 1938, the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes recognize career excellence and reporting that advances inter-American understanding.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
NEW: U.S. airstrikes at sea are killing Mexican citizens. At least 13 Mexican men have died in U.S. attacks on alleged drug boats, including eight fishermen who set out to sea in February near Puerto Vallarta and never returned. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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U.S. airstrikes at sea are killing Mexican citizens
Mexican vessels carrying Mexican citizens have been hit in U.S. airstrikes against alleged drug boats, a Times investigation found.
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
In La Guaira, dozens of recent deportees were being held in a hotel when the earthquakes struck. Authorities refused to open the doors even as the roof caved in. "They were left there to die, locked inside." @kate-linthicum.bsky.social www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Deported to Venezuela, then trapped beneath quake rubble
More than 100 people deported from the U.S. were staying at a shelter in Venezuela that collapsed during two deadly earthquakes.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Former Mexican President AMLO comes out of retirement to accuse Trump of plotting against Mexico’s left. He calls the White House war on "narcoterrorists" little more than a "pretext" for U.S. intervention. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Former President López Obrador accuses Trump of plotting against Mexico’s left
Former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a blistering statement accusing the Trump administration of using a narco-terrorism “pretext” to weaken Mexico’s left.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
NEW: The U.S. is investigating two more Mexican governors for alleged ties to cartels. The news, which comes after the indictment of the Sinaloa government, puts new pressure on President Sheinbaum, who has slammed U.S. probes into sitting Mexican leaders as electoral interference. t.co/IturgAvHzY
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The Flores twins built a drug empire with El Chapo -- then betrayed him. After years in prison, the brothers are now free, and each is pursuing a very different path toward redemption. One of the wildest stories I've gotten to tell. lnkd.in/dgTdKKhK
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I wrote about two trips I took to Cuba exactly 10 years apart -- and about the hope that faded into heartbreak as Trump hardened U.S. policy and more than a million people fled the island in desperation. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Cuba's collapse: From Obama's historic opening to Trump's crippling embargo
The hope felt when President Obama visited Cuba in 2016 has given way to despair as the island struggles under the oil embargo ordered by President Trump.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I'm in Cuba, where many are without power and water as a U.S. oil blockade plunges the island into its worst energy crisis in recent history. “The U.S. is trying to punish the Cuban government,” one man told me. “But it’s the people who are suffering.” www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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How Cuba is struggling under the U.S. oil blockade
Cubans fed up with rolling blackouts have staged sporadic protests in recent days, banging pots and shouting slogans against the government.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The U.S. is quietly deporting thousands of migrants to Mexico who have no connection to the country. Many are homeless and quasi-stateless: undocumented in Mexico but unable to return home. “They’re sending them here to die,” a shelter official told me. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Homeless and stateless: Deportees from U.S. are trapped in Mexico
Deported not to their homelands but to unfamiliar cities deep inside Mexico, thousands of migrants are stranded in a dangerous, bureaucratic limbo with little support and no clear path forward.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The U.S. is quietly deporting thousands of migrants to Mexico who have no connection to that country. Many are homeless and quasi stateless: undocumented in Mexico, unwanted in the U.S. and -- in the case of Cubans -- unable to return to their country of origin. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Homeless and stateless: Deportees from U.S. are trapped in Mexico
Deported not to their homelands but to unfamiliar cities deep inside Mexico, thousands of migrants are stranded in a dangerous, bureaucratic limbo with little support and no clear path forward.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trump is sweeping up migrants who have been in the U.S. for many years. Deportees are now returning to Mexico after decades away -- and discovering a country transformed by violence. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Deported to danger: Returning migrants discover a Mexico transformed by cartels
Deportees returning to Mexico find they must learn how to live in a land often controlled by cartels.
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Now that the heir of Hugo Chávez's political movement is talking with the CIA and cooperating with Trump, what is the fate of Chavismo? After the ouster of Maduro, analysts are debating whether Chavismo is finished or merely transformed. @kate-linthicum.bsky.social www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Venezuelan 'Chavismo' revolutionized Latin America. Will it survive Maduro’s fall?
After the U.S. toppled Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s new leader bows to Washington, raising doubts about whether the once-defiant Chavista revolution can survive.
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Damián Suárez, an artist who left Venezuela in 2011, blames Maduro for what he sees as a “spiritual void” among those who fled the country. “Our identity was shattered,” he said, comparing migrants with “plants ripped from their soil.” @kate-linthicum.bsky.social www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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'We just want our lives back.' Maduro's gone, but what's next for 8 million Venezuelans who fled?
Nicolás Maduro's downfall has stirred a mix of relief, fear and uncertainty among Venezuela’s vast diaspora, many of whom were forced into exile by repression and hardship and now face the question of...
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
One of the darkest legacies of the Maduro regime was the 8 million people who fled Venezuela during his rule. What happens to them now? www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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'We just want our lives back.' Maduro's gone, but what's next for 8 million Venezuelans who fled?
Nicolás Maduro's downfall has stirred a mix of relief, fear and uncertainty among Venezuela’s vast diaspora, many of whom were forced into exile by repression and hardship and now face the question of...
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This surprised me! Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum insists she will not allow the U.S. military to operate in her country. Yet polls and interviews show that a good chunk of Mexicans actually want the Americans to come fight drug cartels. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Trump has vowed to attack cartels. Many Mexicans welcome it.
Many Mexicans, desperate for security, now back limited U.S. military help against cartels despite President Claudia Sheinbaum’s vow to bar foreign intervention. President Trump has offered to send U....
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Maxed out credit cards. Overdue rent. The looming threat of closure. I spent time at an LA car wash that has been battered by ICE raids to show how American businesses that depend on immigrant labor are fairing under Trump. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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This L.A. car wash depends on immigrant labor. Can it survive Trump?
The car wash industry, emblematic of California's highway culture, has long depended on immigrant labor. It's been hit hard by President Trump's deportation campaign.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was groped Tuesday by a man on the street who kissed her neck and touched her chest. “If they do this to the president," she said, "what must happen to all the young women women?" She's calling for new measures to end harassment www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Mexico's president was groped on the street. Now she's waging war on rampant sexual harassment
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first female president, is pushing measures against sexual harassment after she was groped by a stranger on the street.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
How did Marco Rubio win White House support for Venezuela strikes? He flipped the script. To convince isolationist MAGA leaders, Rubio reframed Maduro as not just a dictator, but also a nefarious drug kingpin who is fueling crime and overdoses on US streets. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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How Rubio is winning over Trumpworld on striking Venezuela
U.S. military pressure on Venezuela is a major victory for Marco Rubio, who has swayed MAGA to his cause: toppling leftist Latin American authoritarians.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
How Trump is using Tren de Aragua to justify mass deportations, deadly strikes in the Caribbean and -- some believe -- perhaps a push for regime change in Venezuela. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Is Tren de Aragua a real threat -- or a convenient villain?
Trump uses Tren de Aragua to justify deportations and deadly strikes on boats. Experts say it doesn't pose a threat.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum -- one a handful of the world's Jewish heads of state -- is calling on on Israel to end ‘genocide in Gaza.’ www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Mexico's Jewish president calls on Israel to end 'genocide in Gaza'
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who is Jewish, called Israel's war on Gaza a 'genocide,' marking a decisive shift in her government's foreign policy — and putting it at odds with the United State...
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The Supreme Court today upheld the legality of immigration raids based solely on a person's race or profession, like the one on a car wash in Los Angeles that swept up Jesús Cruz, a migrant who had lived in the US for three decades, had four American kids and no criminal record.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The aftermath of an ICE raid. I embedded with Jesús Cruz, who was recently returned to Mexico after working for 33 years in the U.S. He and his wife now face an impossible decision: Should she and their four American children join him in Mexico? Or stay in LA? www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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An ICE raid breaks a family — and prompts a wrenching decision
He came to Los Angeles 33 years ago. Now a man sent back to Mexico and his wife faced an impossible decision. Should she and their U.S. children join him in Mexico? Or stay in Inglewood?
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
For decades, Mexican authorities promised to reform the country's notoriously corrupt cops. But that's largely been abandoned in favor of militarization. I wrote about what it means when there are more soldiers than police deployed across a country. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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This Mexican city had one of the world's highest homicide rates — so it fired most of its police
Mexico once vowed to reform its police. That has been abandoned as the country deploys soldiers to fight cartels.
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Kate Linthicum @kate-linthicum.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
CPAC of the left? In Mexico, leftists and progressives from a dozen countries are convening this week to strategize about how to win elections and combat a well-organized and increasingly global far right. x.com/katelinthicu...
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David Zahniser @davidzahniser.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Jerce Reyes Barrios, a U.S. deportee, told The Times he was haunted by his experience in the Salvadoran prison, where he was repeatedly beaten, forced to drink contaminated water and subjected to other horrors. @kate-linthicum.bsky.social & Mery Mogollón have more www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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'Hell on earth.' A Venezuelan deportee describes abuse in El Salvador prison
A Venezuelan man who was deported from California to El Salvador and held at one of the country's infamous prisons recounts his months in custody, recalling meager rations and the torture and beating ...
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