Cartels Battle Over Mexico’s Multibillion-Dollar Avocado - Industry. This is news and current Posted: Nov 21st, 2019 - 5:38 am
events before anyone says "what does this have to do with politics." These cartels are coming over the border.
Story:
The cartel members showed up in this verdant stretch of western Mexico armed with automatic weapons and chainsaws.
Soon they were cutting timber day and night, the crash of falling trees echoing throughout the virgin forest. When locals protested, explaining that the area was protected from logging, they were held at gunpoint and ordered to keep quiet.
Stealing wood was just a prelude to a more ambitious plan.
The newcomers, members of a criminal group called the Viagras, were almost certainly clearing the forest to set up a grow operation. They wouldn’t be planting marijuana or other crops long favored by Mexican cartels, but something potentially even more profitable: avocados.
Read the full story on LATimes.com.
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