Cartels today also regularly extort producers ... “This is the core of the mafia-style relationships that exist in Michoacán ...

Most of Mexico’s avocados are exported to the U.S., and most are grown in the state of Michoacán. The process is rife with ...

Additionally, CJNG and the Gulf Cartel are also linked to fuel theft, which supports their criminal activities. Mexico's multibillion-dollar avocado industry, which continues to break records for ...

This town is known as Mexico's avocado capital. The municipality of ... and its aim was to crack down on drug cartels by sending in troops. But far from solving the problem of drug-related ...

But it is having little effect on the ground - in fact farmers like those in Murang'a county are having to harvest early in order to save their crop from the avocado cartels. Leaving them on the ...

But on Dec. 6, Saucedo was kidnapped, beaten and threatened by drug cartel gunmen who either protect or invest in avocado orchards. This week, Saucedo said he detected a huge water retention pond ...

Avocado exports are the latest victim of the drug cartel turf battles and extortion of avocado growers in the western state of Michoacan, the only state in Mexico fully authorized to export to the ...

U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar has rejected accusations by Mexico’s president that the U.S. shares some responsibility for ...

[Denish Ochieng, Standard] Murang’a County Government has formulated a bill that would regulate avocado sector and protect farmers from exploitation by cartels. The County Avocado Production and ...

"Drug cartels have diversified their operations since their inception ... CJNG directs the theft of fuel from pipelines, extorts agave and avocado farmers, migrants and prison officials, and taxes ...