October 25 - The Arab Spring Bears Fruit in Tunisia; Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

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 We begin with the elections in Tunisia that could be a harbinger of democratic change as the Arab Spring bears fruit in the country where the revolutions sweeping the Middle East began. Veteran BBC journalist Roger Hardy joins us. He has been a Middle East and Islamic Affairs analyst with the BBC World Service for 20 years and is the author of “The Muslim Revolt; a Journey Through Political Islam”.  As well as the regional implications, we discuss the victory of the Islamists in Tunisia and whether they will keep their promise to respect the secular traditions of this comparatively liberal North African country. Roger Hardy

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Then we talk about our neighbor to the south, Mexico, with Ioan Grillo, the author of a new book “El Narco; Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency”.  We discuss the increasingly violent and grisly criminal insurgency that poses the greatest armed threat to Mexico since the 1910 revolution, an insurgency which so far has resulted in 40,000 murders south of the border in a failed war on drugs that is fueled by money and guns from the U.S.

 Ioan Grillo

 

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