BBC Radio 4 August 6th 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
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🗓️ 6 August 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Mexico's drug wars are notoriously violent and the killings have spread to neighbouring Guatemala. Linda Pressly has been to the scene of a gruesome massacre in northern Guatemala. The "indignados" in Spain began their protests in May, angry at the banks and at the way the government has responded to the economic crisis with spending cutbacks, privatisations and redundancies. Sarah Rainsford recently joined some of the young indignants on the road. Colombia's "Red Zone" is traditionally a no-go area for medics and journalists. But Imogen Foulkes has travelled upriver in this area - long fought over by drug cartels, FARC rebels and the Colombian military. Government cutbacks across Europe, particularly spending cuts for social programmes, are sometimes hitting the most vulnerable hardest. Emma Jane Kirby has been spending time with those who have fallen onto hard times in Paris. Why is it that Poles love to dress up as knights at the weekend? Adam Easton has been finding out.
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| 0:00.0 | This is from our own correspondent. We make an edition for the BBC World Service as well, |
| 0:05.2 | but this is a download of the latest Radio 4 program and here to introduce it, as ever, Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.2 | Today we visit the site of horrific killings in Guatemala as drug violence spreads |
| 0:16.6 | from neighbouring Mexico. |
| 0:19.3 | The young indignance of Spain take their message onto the road. We go on a trip down river in |
| 0:25.6 | Columbia's Red Zone and hear why the disco music has come to a stop. And why do |
| 0:31.2 | Poles like to dress up as nights at the weekend? |
| 0:35.0 | Mexico's drug wars have been notoriously violent in recent years. |
| 0:40.0 | Only last week the authorities convicted a teenage gang member of murder, kidnap and |
| 0:45.8 | possessing drugs and weapons who admitted to cutting the throats of four people. |
| 0:50.6 | He was just 14 at the time. A number of the leaders of drug cartels have been |
| 0:56.0 | arrested in recent months but the killings have not abated as different groups |
| 1:00.8 | fight it out for control and those battles have spilled over into |
| 1:04.9 | neighbouring countries like Guatemala which is no stranger to violence as it is. |
| 1:10.8 | Linda Presley has been to the scene of a massacre in northern Guatemala, |
| 1:15.0 | where Mexican groups are trying to take control of the drug routes coming from further south. |
| 1:20.0 | There are just so many shoes. flip-flops a cowboy boot, |
| 1:24.8 | Wellington's, a single cheap trainer and a child Sunday best Navy leather |
| 1:29.2 | sandals. They're strewn across the tropical earth outside two rough wooden buildings. |
| 1:35.0 | These would have been home to the workers on Los Cocos Ranch, |
| 1:38.0 | migrants from the south of Guatemala who moved north to the region of Peten near the Mexican border to get a job. |
| 1:45.4 | Now those workers are gone. |
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