US-Canada are in a trade "war"

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Canadian Prime minister Mark Carney has said the country is now at "war" with the United States after the latter imposed fifty per cent tariffs on a range of Canadian goods - affecting around twenty-billion dollars worth of exports. A group of former Swedish ambassadors and officials say the Scanadavian country needs to rethink its relationship with the Taliban. The plea was made in an letter to a Swedish newspaper. We hear from one of the signatories. Also on the programme: a Mexican literary institution, the publishing house Ediciones Era who discovered Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is set to close after 66 years. What does this mean for engagement with Mexican and Latin American literature? Image: Chris Tanouye, Reuters