Joshua Partlow

Dario Angulo works with his cattle in Costa Rica at sunrise.

A pipeline of undocumented workers for Donald Trump ran from Costa Rica to N.J.: ‘My whole town practically lived there’

August 22, 2019 at 3:28 p.m.

At his home on the misty slope of Costa Rica's tallest mountain, Dario Angulo keeps a set of photographs from the years he tended the rolling fairways and clipped greens...

A dress and other items belonging to Meybelin Guidos Portillo, 6, wait at her father's home in the coastal province of Usulutan.

U.S. officials separated him from his daughter. Then he was deported to El Salvador.

August 22, 2019 at 9:21 a.m.

Arnovis Guidos Portillo remembers the authorities in green uniforms telling him that this would only be temporary. They told him that his 6-year-old daughter, Meybelin, should really go with them,...

Trump did not threaten war with Mexico, US and Mexican officials agree

August 22, 2019 at 3:00 a.m.

Did President Donald Trump threaten to invade Mexico? That's the question at the heart of the new controversy over the phone call last Friday between Trump and President Enrique Peña...

Mexicans set fire to an effigy of Donald Trump on March 26, 2016, in Mexico City during Holy Week celebrations. For many years, Mexicans have made cardboard figures representing all forms of evil, which are then torched to commemorate the "Burning of Judas," a tradition in which Mexicans torch effigies of the devil, politicians and others they dislike on the eve of Easter Sunday.

Mexicans torch Donald Trump effigy during annual Easter eve celebrations

May 14, 2019 at 11:05 a.m.

Who would you build if you had to make a monster of mythical proportions? An evil equal to a biblical scourge? A traitor to be burned in effigy whose fiery...

How Mexico secretly launched a crackdown after Penn met ‘El Chapo’

June 20, 2019 at 9:02 p.m.

Four days after Sean Penn met with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán last October, Mexican marine helicopters swooped in on the drug lord's hideout atop a pine-studded peak in the Sierra...

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, seen in a photo released by the Mexican website Plaza de Armas, was recaptured Jan. 8, 2016.

Prison break shines spotlight on Mexico’s shadowy corruption woes

June 20, 2019 at 6:44 p.m.

To build a tunnel about a mile long and 30 feet below Mexico's highest-security prison, the rescuers of drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán would have needed to haul away...

Mexicans’ search for bodies reveals a history of hidden deaths

August 21, 2019 at 10:21 p.m.

IGUALA, Mexico _They picked up spent shotgun shells and placed them in plastic baggies for safe keeping. They examined discarded bottles, charred sticks, crusted weather-worn clothes. Over rocks and ridges,...

‘Decisive’ push set for Mosul

August 22, 2021 at 2:47 a.m.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Friday that Iraqi reinforcements have begun moving toward the northern city of Mosul for a "decisive" battle with the Sunni insurgent group Al Qaeda...

Iraqi death toll put at 151,000 in new study

August 22, 2021 at 2:54 a.m.

A new survey estimates that 151,000 Iraqis died of violence in the three years after the U.S.-led invasion of the country. Roughly 9 out of 10 of those deaths were...

Turkey steps up Iraq raids

August 21, 2021 at 9:47 p.m.

Turkey pressed an intensifying offensive against Kurdish guerrillas in neighboring Iraq on Wednesday, sending warplanes across the border to bomb suspected winter hide-outs of the rebels, the Turkish military said....

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