“We are running a serious risk of them killing us for protesting,” Francisco Gómez Cortés said. “Out of necessity, we are doing what the government should be doing.”
"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."
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.