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The Latest Breaking News from Michoacán

Mexico vigilante leader’s killing highlights failure to curb violence

Hipólito Mora’s death in a hail of bullets is just the latest murder as the country’s brutal crime conflict shows no sign of abating

The Guardian - US

Hipólito Mora, vigilante crusader against Mexico’s drug cartels, killed in ambush

One of the leaders of the violence-scarred country’s ‘self-defense’ movement was cut down in rural Michoacán

The Guardian - US

Environmental defenders reel from Mexico and Central America attacks

At least two dozen activists in Indigenous and rural areas murdered, disappeared and jailed in wave of attacks

The Guardian - US

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The Dark Side of Jalisco’s Avocado Boom

As production stifles biodiversity, depletes water reserves and takes over wild land, environmentalists worry about Mexico's "green gold."

Texas Observer

Mexico earthquake – live: At least one dead after 7.6 magnitude quake strikes on chilling anniversary

The quake occurred on the exact anniversary of two previous disasters that killed thousands of people in 1985 and 2017

The Independent UK

Avocado industry crosses into ganglands

Mexico’s cash crop has been an attractive business enterprise for American taste buds and crime cartels

Salon

Trauma doctors say migrant injuries and deaths rose sharply as the border wall grew taller

SAN DIEGO — On a foggy night in mid-March, several family members from the Mexican state of Michoacán followed smugglers' instructions to climb the first of two border barriers to reach U.S. soil near San Diego.

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Battle-scarred ghost town bears mute witness to Mexico’s drug wars

The army has reclaimed the village school that became a battlefield but few believe cartels’ bloody reign has ended

The Guardian - US

Eighth Mexican journalist to be killed in 2022 is shot outside his home

Armando Linares López gunned down six weeks after mourning the murder of a colleague in the same city in Michoacán state

The Guardian - US

How Mexico's lucrative avocado industry found itself smack in the middle of gangland

To the relief of avocado lovers from coast to coast, the recent drama between the United States and Mexico was fleeting.

The Conversation

How Drug Cartels and Federal Import Restrictions May Cancel Your Guacamole Plans

Almost all of America’s avocados come from a single Mexican state. A threatening message threw it into disarray.

Reason

Avocado spat with Mexico puts California farmers in spotlight

LOS ANGELES — A security spat between the U.S. and Mexico that threatens the avocado supply in the U.S. is putting the spotlight on California farmers, a major U.S. supplier of the fruit.

Los Angeles Times

US suspends Mexican avocado imports after inspector receives ‘threatening phone call’

The avocado-producing state of Michoacán has been riven with violence between the Jalisco cartel and an alliance of smaller gangs

The Independent UK

Mexico lime inflation leaves sour taste as cartels gouge prices for cuisine staple

The green fruit has become less ubiquitous on local tables as criminal gangs fight over the trade, driving diners to distraction

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How we got to peak avocado: Super Bowls to Mexico's drug cartels

Humans have been eating avocados on this continent for some 10,000 years or possibly longer, according to the archeological record. And we've been doing it more or less the same way the whole time, by mashing the tree's fruit into a pulpy paste known as guacamole.

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