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From Our Own Correspondent: Mexico and the Migrants

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08/06/2019 GMT

Mexico and the Migrants

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Mexico and the Migrants

The US plays hardball with Mexico, demanding it harden borders or face tariffs

The USA plays hardball with Mexico over migration and trade; women changing the Japanese workplace; memories of Poland's 1989 elections and echoes of the slavery era in S Carolina

Reportage, analysis and wit from correspondents and writers around the world - introduced by Pascale Harter. 

As the Trump administration presses Mexico's government to "do more" to stop Central American migrants from reaching the USA, Will Grant went far south to Chiapas state, on Mexico's border with Guatemala, to see how the scene on the ground is changing.

Amy Guttman senses a newly feminist flavour in some Japanese workplaces - from haute cuisine restaurants to building sites - where women are working in ever greater numbers, and ever more senior roles. But has PM Shinzo Abe's call for "Womenomics" really changed the game?

It's 30 years since Poland held its first even partially-free elections after WW!!, and back in 1989 Kevin Connolly was in Warsaw, reporting the story as it happened. Remembering the rattle of the telex machine and the dreary dinners, he looks back and wonders why it seems so much longer ago.

And in South Carolina, there's plenty of debate over the use and abuse of history - especially the history of slavery. On a visit to a plantation museum near Charleston, which focuses on the story of the people held there as enslaved workers, Juliet Rix felt some echoes of the past still uncannily near at hand in the present day.


(Image: Migrants hold hands as they cross the border between the US and Mexico at the Rio Grande river. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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