Description Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico.
A frequent media commentator on foreign relations, she has published her work in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other periodicals..
O\'Neil is Senior Fellow for Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
About the Author Shannon K.
Because in no uncertain terms, our future depends on it. to forge a new relationship with its southern neighbor.
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It is past time for the U.
Now more than ever, the two countries are indivisible.
This is the Mexico Americans need to get to know.
Armed with higher levels of education, upwardly-mobile men and women have been working their way out of poverty, building the largest, most stable middle class in Mexico\'s history.
The news that isn\'t being reported is that, over the last decade, Mexico has become a real democracy, providing its citizens a greater voice and opportunities to succeed on their own side of the border.
Rather, we should wake up to the revolution of prosperity now unfolding there.
O\'Neil argues that the United States is making a grave mistake by focusing on the politics of antagonism toward Mexico.
In her groundbreaking book, Two Nations Indivisible, Shannon K.
While thugs have been grabbing the headlines, Mexico has undergone an unprecedented and under-publicized political, economic, and social transformation.
But, there is far more to Mexico\'s story than this gruesome narrative would suggest.
In the last six years, over 60, 000 people have been murdered in narco-related crimes.
Without a doubt, the drug war is real.
These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the media, infiltrate movies and TV shows, and ultimately shape Americans\' perception of Mexico as a dangerous and scary place, overrun by brutal drug lords.
A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball.
Description Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico
