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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...