Hope for the crest: an Omicron wave hits India
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The country has the world’s worst estimated covid-death total—but as another variant takes hold there are reasons for optimism. Mexico’s president has some old-fashioned notions about energy, and his pet legislation would make it both dirtier and costlier. And the Orient Express was itself a murder victim, just one line in a continent-spanning rail network that may yet be revived.
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| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
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| 0:33.4 | on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:39.8 | An amendment to Mexico's constitution |
| 0:42.0 | winding its way through the legislature |
| 0:44.0 | would wind back the clock for the country's vast energy sector. |
| 0:47.8 | We ask why the president is so determined |
| 0:50.1 | to make energy worse for the planet and for pocketbooks. |
| 0:53.2 | And back in the 1970s, |
| 0:56.9 | there was a murder of the Orient Express. |
| 0:59.7 | We look back on the slow decline of a continent-spanning rail network |
| 1:03.7 | that was far more than just a mystery novel setting. |
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