Strongmen - and stronger women
Dispatches on Turkey's crackdown on press freedom; Putin's appeal for Russia; what Germany's Pegida movement wants; motherhood in Mexico and the ethics of visiting Antarctica
Mark Lowen considers why Turkeyβs President Erdogan has been trying to silence some media outlets, while many voters still feel heβs the one who gives them a voice.
Sarah Rainsford weighs up how Vladimir Putin gave Russia what itβs craved β and how long he can remain the nationβs action hero.
Jenny Hill joins a march in Dresden by the Pegida movement: it claims to expresses concerns about how immigration and βIslamisationβ are changing the West, but most Germans vilify it.
As he ends a three-year posting in Mexico, Will Grant examines the role of mothers in Mexican culture, and how many of them are having to confront the countryβs ugliest problems.
And Juliet Rix goes on a very long journey β all the way to Antarctica β only to be told to stay well away from the local wildlife. Is tourism polluting this last great wilderness?
(Photo: A mother cries during a protest in Mexico City on May 10, 2013, demanding the Government investigate killings and disappearances associated with the country's drug wars. Credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)
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