Published 3 months ago

As cartels take a stake in ‘green gold,’ US and Mexico rethink how avocados reach American kitchens

Summary by KIFI

By David Shortell, CNN (CNN) — When two US avocado inspectors were assaulted and detained at a police roadblock in the Mexican state of Michoacán last month, it sparked a costly international crisis. The US paused all avocado imports from the state for more than a week, leaving Mexican growers out of tens of millions of dollars and temporarily sending the price of a carton of the fruit in the US soaring by 40 percent, according to analysis firm …

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