Mary Beth Sheridan

Mexico City

Correspondent covering Mexico and Central America

Education: College of the Holy Cross, BA in English

Mary Beth Sheridan is a correspondent covering Mexico and Central America for The Washington Post. She came to The Post in 2001 after 11 years as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press, Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times. During her career, she has been based in Rome; Bogota, Colombia; and Mexico City. Her previous assignments for The Post include covering diplomacy, homeland security and immigration. She served as deputy foreign editor from 2016 to 2018.
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Latest from Mary Beth Sheridan

Mexico faces humanitarian crisis as Biden migration policy kicks in

The desperation at a migrant camp in Matamoros, a half-mile from the U.S. border, underscored the questions swirling around Biden's new migration policy.

May 13, 2023

End of Title 42 pandemic border policy brings reset, but no sudden rush

The Title 42 border policy, used during the pandemic to quickly expel migrants who were in the United States illegally, expired Friday.

May 12, 2023

As fentanyl crisis grows, U.S.-Mexico divide deepens

Mexico's president denies the opioid is produced in his country. U.S. Republicans want to send troops across the border to attack the labs.

April 29, 2023

Mexican military accused of hindering probe of 43 missing students

International investigators claim the country's powerful military is blocking access to details that could be crucial in solving the students' disappearance.

March 31, 2023

Fatal fire, damning video put harsh focus on Mexico’s migrant centers

Catholic Church leaders, human rights groups, the opposition party and even government allies are demanding an end to abuses within the facilities.

March 29, 2023

Fire at migrant center in Mexico near U.S. border kills at least 38

The fire started late Monday at the National Migration Institute in Ciudad Juárez. Video footage show guards leaving the detainees as flames spread.

March 29, 2023

Costa Rica, laid-back land of ‘pura vida,’ succumbing to drug violence

The Central American tourist magnet, once merely a way station for U.S.- and Europe-bound cocaine, sees growing domestic use — and record homicides.

March 22, 2023

Matamoros victims found, but 550 Americans are still missing in Mexico

Families of the missing watch the U.S. effort to find the four citizens abducted in the border city and ask: Why aren't their cases getting the same attention?

March 10, 2023

Mexico’s president rebukes GOP push to use U.S. military against cartels

Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the demands threatened Mexico's sovereignty. He also cast the fentanyl epidemic as a U.S. problem.

March 10, 2023

Mexican cartel delivers ‘kidnappers’ — five bound men — and an apology

The action appeared to follow the Mexican cartel tradition of handing over members who have have caused them problems.

March 9, 2023