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Name: Two Nations Indivisible
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Author: Shannon K. O’Neil

Shannon K. O’Neil

Mexico, the United States and the Road Ahead

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Two Nations Indivisible by Shannon K. O'Neil provides an insightful exploration of Mexico's current challenges and how they impact the US. It presents a comprehensive analysis of Mexican politics, economy, and society, offering an optimistic outlook for a prosperous and cooperative partnership between the two nations.

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What’s in it for me? Understand the complex relationship between Mexico and the United States.

During the 2016 US presidential primaries, a key plank of Republican candidate – and eventual winner – Donald Trump’s campaign was the construction of an immense wall along the Mexican border, ostensibly to keep out undocumented migrants from the United States’ southern neighbor.

The proposal spurred reactions ranging from vociferous support to fierce criticism, showing just how complex the United States’ relationship with Mexico is. And south of the border, the relationship isn't straightforward by any means, either.

In these blinks, we will examine this dynamic relationship and how it has changed and evolved over the last decades. We will explore the possibilities and challenges Mexico is facing and how they can be tackled in concert with the United States.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how United States’ news portrays a flawed image of the current situation in Mexico;
why free trade is a good start, but won’t solve all of Mexico’s problems; and
how immigration from Mexico into the United States has actually stalled since 2011.

US news coverage of Mexico focuses on drug-related crime while ignoring positive developments in the nation.

In 1997, Amado Carillo, an infamous drug lord and head of a major drug cartel in Juárez, Mexico, died in hospital while undergoing cosmetic surgery to disguise his identity. You can easily imagine what a juicy news headline this made and, of course, the US media ate it up.

In fact, US news coverage of Mexico is primarily focused on drugs and crime. The city of Juárez is central to this narrative and the news of Carrillo's death is just one example of the American media’s obsession with the city.

The focus on Juárez might be a result of the city’s location right along the border with the United States, just south of Texas and New Mexico. But it’s also a product of the city’s ludicrously high rates of drug-related crime.

For instance, in 2009, there were over 2,500 violent, drug-related deaths in the city, the highest drug crime murder rate in all of Mexico. Just one year later, the number had risen to 3,000 deaths, making Juárez the most violent city on earth. Between 2007 and 2011, over 9,000 people were murdered by drug lords and dealers in the city.

The American media is especially skilled at depicting all the tragedy and violence of the Mexican drug wars, but it misses the fact that the country has come a long way toward prosperity. While drug violence is still an issue, it shouldn’t overshadow the rapid progress Mexico is making in other areas.

For example, Juárez is growing quickly, with new buildings and factories from well-known multinational companies, like Siemens and Bosch, emerging all the time. The city’s economic development has even been mentioned by Foreign Direct Investment magazine, a journal of the Financial Times Group. According to the journal, Juárez is a city with future prospects and a per capita income that’s above average for the country.

The United States and Mexico have tried to develop their relationship, but diplomatic relations remain strained.

Nowadays, lots of Mexicans live in the United States and many Americans, especially retired ones, move to Mexico to enjoy the warmer climate. This exchange makes it all the more essential for the two countries’ governments to find common ground. To their credit, the United States and Mexico have been working to improve their diplomatic ties for years.

For example, in 2009, Carlos Pascual was named the US Ambassador to Mexico. Determined to strengthen cooperation between the two nations, he and President Barack Obama traveled to the Mexican city of Guadalajara for the annual North American Leaders Summit.

Since the 1980s immigration to the USA from Mexico has increased.

Mexico’s oil industry has long been one of the country’s primary sources of wealth, which meant serious trouble in the 1980s when oil prices suddenly tanked. This market crash had far-reaching effects and produced a wave of immigration, with Mexican citizens flooding into the United States.

It all started in 1982 when Mexico’s currency, the peso, was devalued by 40 percent over the course of just a few months. As a result, Mexico couldn’t afford to pay interest on its foreign debt, which at the time amounted to $80 billion; in turn, the peso lost even more of its value.

Protests during the 1990s led to Mexico’s first truly democratic elections in 2000.

Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI in Spanish, first came to power in 1929. The party was monopolistic, corrupt and had to use gerrymandering to maintain elected office.

So, it’s no surprise that the Mexican people eventually began protesting against this authoritarian government. This wave of protest emerged in the 1990s and, by 1994, Mexico’s expanding middle class felt utterly abandoned by the PRI as the peso crisis continued.

Trade agreements have strengthened Mexico’s economy, but liberalization won’t solve everything.

Immigration remains a hotly contested issue, as people from different countries and cultures often experience misunderstandings and can have trouble finding common ground. But when it comes to international economic exchange, everyone stands to benefit.

Just take the Mexican economy, which has grown more robust in large part thanks to international trade agreements. The first such agreement was the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, a deal between Canada, the United States and Mexico, which some politicians began lobbying for as early as the 1980s.

Drug trafficking has become big business in Mexico, bringing tremendous violence along with it.

Most people know that recreational drugs are commonplace in Western countries. But the relatively harmless aspects of recreational drug use, primarily involving teenagers eating too many Cheetos, is counterbalanced by a much darker side.

Over the last 30 years, Mexico has become a major hub for drug trafficking. It used to be that the primary path by which drugs like cocaine entered the United States was from Colombia, through the Caribbean and into Miami. But in the 1980s, the United States spent billions of dollars to tighten up security along its southeast coast, effectively cutting off this route.

The United States and Mexico must collaborate more on immigration and strengthen their economic ties.

Have you heard about the American citizens who take it upon themselves to patrol the Mexican border? Their intention is to control the flow of immigration, but this tactic is by no means sustainable.

Instead, the United States and Mexico need to foster greater collaboration on the issue of immigration. The first thing that needs to be done is to speed up the process by which immigrant families are reunited. An easy way to do this would be to allocate family-based immigration visas to the immediate family members of naturalized US citizens.

If political and economic reforms continue, Mexico will become a strong new democracy.

In July of 2012, Enrique Peña Nieto of the PRI, which held Mexico back for so many decades, was elected president of the country. However, it quickly became clear that the party would no longer impose an authoritarian socialist regime.

In fact, the latest indicators point to a Mexico that is both democratic and prosperous. For instance, during his first year in office, Peña Nieto introduced 16 reforms, all on important issues.

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Two Nations Indivisible (2013) tells the story of the United States’ relationship with its neighbor to the south: Mexico. These blinks explain the profound connections between the two countries as well as the misunderstandings that keep them apart, with an emphasis on political and economic relations.

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In 2011, towards the end of Calderòns administration, five drug-related murders took place every day in Juárez.

—Shannon K. O’Neil

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Über den Autor

Shannon K. O’Neil is a specialist in Latin America at the Council on Foreign Relations, an American NGO and think tank that endeavors to educate the public on issues of foreign policy. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and USA Today. Two Nations Indivisible is her first book.

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