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Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - Eddie Escobedo, a trafficker affiliated with the Sinaloa cartel, went to federal prison in 2018 for selling huge amounts of marijuana. After his release, Escobedo started a chain of popular hibachi restaurants and swore he'd gone straight. In 2023, he was gunned down at an after-hours party near Compton. His son, Eddie Escobedo Jr. (pictured), is carrying on his father's hibachi business, Besthibachi (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
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Son of ‘El Mago,’ Sinaloa cartel legend killed in L.A., seeks new family legacy

Eduardo Escobedo, a convicted drug trafficker affiliated with the Sinaloa cartel, was killed last Thanksgiving in Los Angeles. Now his son is running the family’s restaurant business and learning about his father’s hidden life working with the infamous El Chapo.
San Pedro, CA, Thursday, June 13, 2024 - Workers at the Marine Exchange who instruct ships over radio how to navigate their way into the port. The Marine Exchange sits on top of an old WWI bunker and has an incredible vantage point of the port. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Bluff or existential threat? As Trump vows tariffs on all imports from Canada, Mexico and China, leaders wonder if he’s serious

Former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press after being formally charged by the federal police with attempted coup, at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro participated in a 2022 coup plot, unsealed police report says

Mexico City, Mexico-Nov. 19, 2024-Each day, an army of trucks delivers thousands of tons of fresh fruit and vegetables to Mexico City's Central de Abasto, one of the largest wholesale food markets in the world. (Kate Linthicum / Los Angeles Times)

Americans will throw out 316 million pounds of food on Thanksgiving. Here’s how it fuels climate change

Yamandu Orsi, candidate for the Broad Front (Frente Amplio) and running mate Carolina Cosse, right, celebrate after polls closed in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate Yamandú Orsi becomes country’s new president

Uruguay’s once-dull election has become a dead heat in the presidential runoff

Brazilian police formally accuse former President Bolsonaro of 2022 coup attempt

Mexico’s president on Trump deportation plans: Immigrants are not ‘criminals’

Nicaragua’s Ortega proposes reform to make him and his wife ‘copresidents’

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