Drugs flow north because Americans buy them. America, in turn, exports farm products, finished goods, technology, and entertainment.Įach country also shares its troubles with the other. It also sends over people who build American homes, grow American food, and drive American trucks. Mexico exports car and machine parts at prices that keep North American manufacturing competitive. People, products, and capital flow back and forth on a huge scale, in ways both legal and clandestine. But Mexico and the United States are joined by geography and demography. Of those homicides, only about 2 percent are effectively prosecuted, according to a recent report from the Brookings Institution (in the U.S., roughly half of all murder cases are solved).Īmericans talk a lot about “the border,” as if to wall themselves off from events on the other side. The country records more than 30,000 homicides a year, which is about triple the murder rate of the United States. Mexico is already bloodied by disorder and violence. On López Obrador’s present trajectory, the Mexican federal elections scheduled for the summer of 2024 may be less than free and far from fair. He is subverting the institutions that have upheld Mexico’s democratic achievement-above all, the country’s admired and independent elections system. Mexico’s erratic and authoritarian president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is scheming to end the country’s quarter-century commitment to multiparty liberal democracy. Unfortunately, that place is right next door: Mexico. His proud words fall short of the truth in at least one place. Autocracies have grown weaker, not stronger.” So President Joe Biden declared in his 2023 State of the Union address. “I n the past two years, democracies have become stronger, not weaker. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday.
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