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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