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From Our Own Correspondent

US Mexico relations

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Mexico takes a tougher approach to migrants as it comes under pressure from the US. 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 this week, 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 editor 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 in the workplace.

Monkey puzzle trees are an endangered species in Chile, but Sarah Wheeler finds they still have special significance for the Mapuche people.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

Hello, today uncertainty in Sudan after the military crackdown on protesters.

0:11.1

Will anything change?

0:13.0

Anniversaries can highlight great events,

0:16.0

but in Poland we reflect on an election that didn't make big headlines.

0:21.0

Japan needs to improve opportunities for women. Curiously, they're heading for

0:26.5

the kitchen. And remember the monkey puzzle tree, we're in Chile to hear about its significance today.

0:36.0

While on his travels last week President Trump was as busy as ever on his Twitter feed,

0:41.0

especially with one of his chief preoccupations, Mexico's illegal immigrants.

0:46.8

He'd threatened to impose tariffs if their government didn't agree more border security. His own party and business leaders were none too happy

0:56.1

as Mexico is the second largest export market for US goods and imports hundreds of billions

1:02.3

of dollars worth of goods from south of the border.

1:05.9

Some hours ago more tweets the threat has been called off.

1:10.1

For the moment perhaps, Will Grant reflects on the migrant problem.

1:15.0

The last time I was in the central platters of the small towns in Chiappas,

1:19.0

they were in very different shape.

1:21.0

It was while travelling with the migrant caravan at the end of last year. Between

1:25.4

three and five thousand people, among them babes in arms and grandparents in wheelchairs,

1:31.2

had left Honduras, crossed into Mexico and and were heading towards the US as a single

1:35.8

group, capturing the world's media attention for weeks.

1:40.1

There was something about the simplicity of their mission, something about the base brutalities they were facing at home,

1:46.0

farmers fleeing in fertile lands that had suffered successive failures in the coffee harvest,

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