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Keegan Hamilton

California

Senior editor, legal affairs and criminal justice @latimes. Previously @VICENews. Stories on drugs, crime, prisons, etc. [email protected].

Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Kate Linthicum |Keegan Hamilton

    Dangerous new hired guns have arrived on the battlefield of Mexico’s cartel wars: Colombian mercenaries. Former combatants in Colombia’s long-standing internal conflict are increasingly being lured to Mexico by criminal groups to train hitmen, build bombs and fight bloody turf battles. Eleven Colombians were arrested in Michoacán state last week in connection to a roadside bomb attack that killed eight members of Mexico’s National Guard.

  • 2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Kate Linthicum |Keegan Hamilton

    Former director claims Frida Kahlo works went missing from Mexico City museumHilda Trujillo Soto, the adjunct director and later director of the Diego Rivera Anahuacalli and Frida Kahlo museums in Mexico City from 2002 to …

  • Mar 21, 2025 | thebrunswicknews.com | Keegan Hamilton

    By Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES - On a single day late last month, the Mexican government shipped 29 accused drug lords north across the border to face U.S. justice. Plucked from Mexican prison cells, hustled onto planes in shackles and express-delivered into the waiting hands of American authorities were several notorious capos, whose alleged narco exploits have been chronicled in films, TV series and federal indictments spanning decades.

  • Mar 21, 2025 | thederrick.com | Keegan Hamilton

    LOS ANGELES — On a single day late last month, the Mexican government shipped 29 accused drug lords north across the border to face U.S. justice. Plucked from Mexican prison cells, hustled onto planes in shackles and express-delivered into the waiting hands of American authorities were several notorious capos, whose alleged narco exploits have been chronicled in films, TV series and federal indictments spanning decades.

  • Mar 21, 2025 | gazettextra.com | Keegan Hamilton

    LOS ANGELES — On a single day late last month, the Mexican government shipped 29 accused drug lords north across the border to face U.S. justice. Plucked from Mexican prison cells, hustled onto planes in shackles and express-delivered into the waiting hands of American authorities were several notorious capos, whose alleged narco exploits have been chronicled in films, TV series and federal indictments spanning decades. kAmp>@?8 E96> 2C6 3C@E96CD D2:5 E@ 36 369:?5 E96 3CFE2= 8C@FA <?@H?

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Keegan Hamilton
Keegan Hamilton @keegan_hamilton
31 May 25

RT @katelinthicum: Eight members of Mexico's National Guard were killed by a land mine this week. @keegan_hamilton and I wrote about the f…

Keegan Hamilton
Keegan Hamilton @keegan_hamilton
27 May 25

New court filing says U.S. prosecutors have agreed not to seek the death penalty against El Chapo’s son, Joaquin Guzman Lopez. Guzman Lopez still has a federal case pending in Chicago following his alleged kidnapping of El Mayo Zambada last year… https://t.co/O0JUguecP1

Keegan Hamilton
Keegan Hamilton @keegan_hamilton
19 May 25

The suspected Palm Springs bomber: “a hopeless unstable young man whose suicidal despair stirs him into a self-consuming brutal death justified by a personally distorted embrace of an obscure anti-life ideology” https://t.co/ZeU805FcGD @latimes