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Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

We've long been telling you about Javier Malay, now Argentina's president, and his

chainsaw approach to solving his country's economic crisis.

Our correspondent says he should put down the power tools and instead take lessons from Peru's

past plight. And when you think of the guillotine in France, you probably

think of the French Revolution, but it was in use all the way until 1977. We reflect on the life of Robert Badinter, the justice

minister responsible for the end to capital punishment in France. But first. I recently went down to Nogales, Arizona, which is a town right on the United States, Mexico,

border. And actually on the other side of the border, there is a town called Nogales in Mexico.

Aaron Braun is the economist's West Coast correspondent.

And it looks like desert, scrub land, there's mountains, and I went to a port of entry where cars are crisscrossing every

single day and there's a big green welcome to Mexico side. When I got there I met Veronica Grassea she's a long time Border

Patrol agent and she gave me a tour of the port. So you will see the wall, the brown.

That's the wall there, that white building over there that you see that's Mexico.

Those vehicles up there, the tower, that

that's Mexico.

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