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BBC OS: 2020/07/10 16:06 GMT: Coronavirus conversations: Mexican cartels

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Coronavirus conversations: Mexican cartels

2020/07/10 16:06 GMT

2020/07/10 16:06 GMT: Coronavirus conversations: Mexican cartels

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How drug cartels have been using the pandemic to try to win support

There are 280,000 coronavirus cases in Mexico - and counting. The economic shutdown to try to stop the spread has meant many people have been unable to work. We speak to the BBC's Anne Laurent, who has been looking at how the country's powerful drug cartels have been stepping in - using the pandemic to try to win support from the poor.

Also, we get your coronavirus questions answered by Dr Megan Murray from Harvard University - including the reports of an "unknown pneumonia" in Kazakhstan. Is it comparable to Covid-19 and a cause for concern?

Our Black America Speaks series on OS listened in to black-owned radio stations across the United States to find out how they were covering the killing of George Floyd and the wave of protests since. On today's edition we bring together four of the hosts from the programmes we heard. Dominique Di Prima from KJLH in Los Angeles, Perri Small from WVON in Chicago, Jerri Beasley from KCOH in Houston and Solomon Jones from WURD in Philadelphia talk about what it means to be part of a black-owned station.

Picture: A member of the Sinaloa cartel gives out supplies to people in Mexico (Credit: BBC)

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