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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A pesar de llevar más de cuatro décadas prófugo como uno de los fugitivos más buscados del mundo, el capo de la droga mexicano Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada nunca había pasado una sola noche en la cárcel, hasta ahora.
July 26, 2024
Despite more than four decades on the run as one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada had never spent a single night in jail -- until now.
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Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada y Joaquín Guzmán López, dos de los hombres más buscados de México, fueron arrestados en un aeropuerto de El Paso, dijeron a Los Angeles Times dos fuentes familiarizadas con la situación.
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