VILLA MADERO, Mexico As a drought in Mexico drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action on thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying up streams in the mountains west of Mexico City.
By ARMANDO SOLIS Associated Press VILLA MADERO, Mexico As a drought in Mexico drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action on th
In recent days, subsistence farmers and activists from the Michoacán town of Villa Madero organized teams to go into the mountains and rip out illegal water pumps and breach unlicensed irrigation holding ponds.