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When I think of Mexican avocados, my first thought is that catchy jingle I keep hearing on commercials for them. I’m not a fan of avocados myself, but the jingle certainly works. What the jingle doesn’t do, though, is address the violence endemic in Mexican society these days.
Why would it?
But it’s a problem for those Mexican avocado farmers. A big one. It’s one they’re arming themselves to deal with.
A convoy of vigilantes snakes along a road in western Mexico, vowing to defend their avocado orchards from gangs sowing terror in a country reeling from a new wave of bloodshed.