In Brief: What's Going On in Mexico? (with Shannon O'Neil)

Preet speaks with Shannon K. O’Neil, the Vice President and Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, about the latest in Mexican politics — the controversial electoral reform legislation, the recent kidnappings of Americans, and the long-standing war with the drug cartels. 

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References & Supplemental Materials:

“Mexico’s Senate approves controversial electoral reform,” Associated Press, 2/22/23

“Two dead, two alive after Americans kidnapped in Mexico,” BBC, 3/8/23

O’Neil’s book, “The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter,” CFR

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