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Radio 4,08 Jun 2019,28 mins

US-Mexico relations

From Our Own Correspondent

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Mexico takes a tougher approach to migrants as it comes under pressure from the United States. Will Grant returns to Chiapas in Southern Mexico, where he travelled with the migrant caravan last year, and finds it a very different place. Sudan has been heavily criticised for the crackdown by its military on protestors in Khartoum, killing dozens of people. Fergal Keane, the BBC’s Africa Editor, looks at how far the country has changed over the years. Kevin Connolly, the BBC’s Europe Correspondent, looks back at Poland’s first big step towards democracy in the late 1980s and why it went largely unnoticed. Amy Guttman meets the female chefs in Japan who are blazing a trail for Prime Minister Abe’s plans to get more women into the workplace. Monkey puzzle trees are an endangered species in Chile, but Sarah Wheeler finds they still have special significance for the Mapuche people

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