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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.
First Posted: Jul 12, 2021 10:09 AM EDT
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A new wave of bloodshed threatens the country, even avocado farmers in Mexico vowed to defend their orchards from gangs sowing terror in Mexico.
Armed with assault rifles and other firearms, a convoy of vigilantes quietly traveled along a road in western Mexico. The masked men were traveling between plantations and maintaining checkpoints in Ario de Rosales in Michoacan state, an area which is the scene of a bloody cartel turf war.
According to France 24, one of the self-defense groups in the region, Pueblos Unidos, claimed that the group had 700 members who were fighting to protect their land. One of the group s members shared that before they started patrolling the area, residents lived in fear, afraid of the possibility of kidnapping, extortion, and even the stealing of their product avocados.
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