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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...