US EditionLime growers’ leader in Mexico killed after denouncing cartel extortion
- The Michoacan state prosecutor's office said on Monday that Bernardo Bravo, president of the Apatzingan Valley Citrus Producers Association, was found dead in his vehicle in Apatzingan Valley, Michoacan.
- In recent months, Bravo repeatedly denounced organized crime's extortion of producers, saying criminals' demands had become out of reach and forced negotiations.
- In August, more than half of lime packing warehouses in the lowlands of Michoacan closed temporarily after growers said they received demands from Los Viagras and other cartels.
- Last year, the federal government sent hundreds of troops to Michoacan to protect lime growers, but Bravo said more must be done to end organized-crime impunity.
- Cartels have taken control of distribution, manipulating prices and harvest timing for avocados and limes, while several criminal groups in Michoacan were declared foreign terrorist organizations by the Trump administration.
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Suspect arrested in connection with murder of Michoacán lime growers' leader
Hours after the murder of Bernardo Bravo, leader of the Apatzingán (Michoacán) Citrus Growers Association (ACVA), federal authorities announced the arrest of a man accused of extorting the lime growers Bravo was fighting to protect. Security Minister Omar García Harfuch issued a statement on social media early Tuesday announcing that the detainee is allegedly a member of the crime gang collecting extortion fees from lime producers and avocado gr…
Three days after warning that he would not allow the Tianguis Limonero of Apatzingan to be filled with intermediaries or 'coyotes' controlled by organized crime, farmer leader Bernardo Bravo Manríquez was tortured and killed by a bullet in the head in the Hot Land of Michoacán. The president of the Association of Citrellers of the Valley of Apatzingán (ACVA), who exhibited extortions, governmental omissions and acted with impunity of hit men in …
Morelia, Mich., Bernardo Bravo Manríquez, president of Citrculadores de Limón del Valle de Apatzingán, was located yesterday without life near the town of El Mirador, known as Tepetates, 12 kilometers from the municipal capital, reported the Attorney General's Office (FGE) of Michoacán.
With features of torture, and on the Apatzingán - Piedra del Río highway, Michoacán, Bernardo Bravo, leader of the Apatzingán Limoneros association, was found dead, and who in recent days had pronounced himself for the violence in the entity.The Michoacán Prosecutor's Office reported that it has already begun investigations to find those responsible for Bernardo Bravo's death, in what has so far been described as a homicide.Octavio Ocampo, a loc…
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