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From Our Own Correspondent: Mexico and Argentina

Mexico and Argentina

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Mexico and Argentina

Pascale Harter presents insights, wit and analysis from Laura Trevelyan and Ray Kershaw.

Pascale Harter with wit and analysis from correspondents around the world. Laura Trevelyan's in a Mexican town which is a hub for sex traffickers; Ray Kershaw ponders the cost of living in Argentina.

Pascale Harter introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. In this edition:

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Sex trafficking is a brutal business - fueled with the bodies and the misery of women tricked into prostitution by pimps and people traffickers. But who are the dealers, and where are they from? Laura Trevelyan visits a hub of the trade: a sinister town in Mexico - where they know you're coming long before you even get there. 

A lottery you just can't win
Argentina's history is full of economic boom and bust - and political turmoil in their wake. In recent years, the high price of commodities and recession in Europe have worked in the country's favour - but there are more and more questions over the realism of its economic policies. "Cristinaism" - the model promoted by the much-loved President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner - has been producing some odd indicators recently. And Ray Kershaw in Buenos Aires found that ordinary people are feeling the pinch when it comes to their weekly shop.

(Image: A teenage girl holding her head in her hands looking despairing. Credit: JIM VARNEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

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