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How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the world influences the United States.

Boston Calling: The Taste of Victory

The Taste of Victory

18/11/2017 GMT

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The new mayor of Helena in Montana has made history — and now just wants to get to work

Wilmot Collins came to Helena as a refugee. Now he’s been elected as the city’s mayor. 

Also: Abdi Nor Iftin tells us what it feels like to win the green card lottery; we find out what award-winning olive oil tastes like (it’s kind of peppery); the Boston Red Sox get their first Latino manager; beauty contestants in Peru stage a protest against gender-based violence that goes viral; and a blind man, hoping to kayak across the Bosphorus Strait, turns to mythology for inspiration.

(Image: For Maddie, left, and Wilmot Collins, coming to the US wasn't easy. In their first few months in Montana, their home was graffitied with "Go back to Africa" and "KKK." But they stayed. Credit: Courtesy of Wilmot Collins)

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