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On the frontline of Mexico’s drug wars, rival cartels are exploiting a decades-old dispute about indigenous land rights and turning local people against each other - with fatal consequences. To appease Trump, the government has downplayed the violence in the south to focus on the US border, but if the cartels continue undeterred, could the US launch a military operation?
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Guest: Louise Callaghan, US Correspondent, The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana
Producer: Sam Chantarasak
Further reading: Watch: inside the town torn apart by Mexico’s cartel violence
Further listening: At the border crossing where Trump’s migrant ban is working
Clips: Al Jazeera, Firstpost, Imagen Noticias.
Photo: Natalia Meneses Alís for The Sunday Times
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