- William Booth
- Staff Writer
William Booth is bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. His recent work has focused on the violence and instability created by drug trafficking and the fight against it. Booth served as bureau chief in Miami and Los Angeles, and as pop culture correspondent for the Style section, trying to make sense of Paris Hilton. He has covered armed conflict in Libya, Iraq, Haiti, and the Balkans. Before coming to the Post, Booth wrote for Science magazine. He was awarded a Vannevar Bush Fellowship at MIT and graduated from the University of Texas in Austin. He was on the Post’s Pulitzer-finalist team that covered the Fort Hood shootings.
Mexico’s ruling crime cartels escalate brutality in all-out war
The Sinaloa cartel and the Zetas are staging public massacres in order to terrify and intimidate, officials say.
Probe opens into Honduras drug bust
Allegedly deadly firefight triggered protests and demands that U.S. anti-drug agents leave the area.
Mexico’s leading presidential candidate is handsome, popular and a mystery
A victory by Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico’s presidential election would put the country back in the hands of the party that governed for 71 years.
In Mexico, a celebration of the mother cult
In the annual celebration of Mother’s Day on May 10, all of Mexico stops what it is doing in the afternoon and eats some serious lunch with Mom.
- Mexico’s telegenic presidential front-runner survives debate
- U.S. government’s Radio and TV Marti call Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega a lackey
- In Nuevo Laredo, 23 corpses found on grisly day in Mexican drug-cartel war
- Cinco de Mayo: How much do you really know about Mexico?
- Cartagena’s night life spelled trouble for Secret Service
- Mexico’s ‘El Popo’ volcano rumbling
- Car-saturated Mexico City lets bicycle riders rule the roads on Sunday mornings
- Zetas’ assassin videotaped his work, Mexican authorities say
