Pro-tip on ripeness. Pull the plug on the end. If it’s yellow, it’s ready to eat. Grayish throw it out. Green, recap and wait.
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Economy Avocados get Cancelled
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Pro-tip on ripeness. Pull the plug on the end. If it’s yellow, it’s ready to eat. Grayish throw it out. Green, recap and wait.
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You'd think at some point we'd send in some "advisors" to help out our southern neighbor. Its just sort of crazy how much crime and corruption happens down there.
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MEXICO CITY (CN) — As avocados from Mexico have grown increasingly popular on U.S. dinner tables in recent years, so has insecurity in the region in which they are cultivated, according to an expert on Mexican organized crime.
The fruit is one of several industries that organized criminal groups in Michoacán — the only Mexican state authorized to export to the United States — have terrorized and extorted over the past two decades.
“We’ve been seeing for the last 15 to 20 years a mutation of how conflict is fought in a way that places civilians increasingly in the crossfire of these foods,” said Falko Ernst, an analyst with the conflict resolution organization International Crisis Group, in an interview.
Ernst said that in addition to illegal drugs, criminal organizations in Michoacán and elsewhere in Mexico have taken to extorting legal enterprises such as lime production and iron mining as an easy way to make money.
Fostered by a culture of rampant state corruption, collusion and impunity, extortion has become a convenient business model for criminal groups.
“You don’t have to produce anything but a violent threat, against which you provide protection from yourself. It’s a very sound business model, beyond the ethics of it,” said Ernst.
These protection payments end up getting passed on to American consumers, who pay more for the extortion involved in the process of getting avocados north of the border from Michoacán.
“The going rate is about 20% for these protection payments,” said Ernst.
And this environment of unmitigated violence and impunity has increased displacement and forced migration from Michoacán.
“What drives these foods, and thus the humanitarian costs like displacements that are on the uptick in Michoacán and other areas, is the necessity for armed groups to stay in the game in terms of syphoning off profits and income from these larger industries,” said Ernst.
Immigration experts have seen the effects of these displacements in the form of larger numbers of Mexican asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“This trend first started being seen in 2018 and 2019,” said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy counsel and border issues specialist at the American Immigration Council. “They were primarily Mexican families and primarily from Michoacán and Guerrero.”
Back then, the Trump administration created the so-called Humanitarian Asylum Review Process, or HARP, to put Mexican citizens through a quick and cursory version of the asylum process.
Under HARP, Mexican asylum seekers were asked about the credible fear of returning to the situations they had fled while still in Customs and Border Patrol custody, rather than the normal process of first being transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention.
With the majority of credible fear claims denied, HARP served as a fast-track way of expelling most Mexicans from the United States. Later, the coronavirus pandemic offered the pretext of Title 42, which allows U.S. immigration officials to expel asylum seekers based on the supposed threat of Covid-19.
“In short, it was designed to prevent the increasing numbers of Mexican asylum seekers from getting into the country,” said Reichlin-Melnick.
Mexican avocado exports to the United States are big business. The USDA reports more than $2.4 billion worth of Michoacán's "green gold" went to U.S. supermarkets in 2020. But the U.S. halted inspections of avocados in Mexico on Saturday in response to an alleged threat to a U.S. produce inspector.
“The program will remain suspended until the security situation is reviewed and protocols and safeguards are in place for APHIS [Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service] personnel," the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said in a statement:
The embassy emphasized the halt was not on imports, but rather on inspections, and that “the suspension of the inspection program does not affect avocados in transit.”
However, it provided no timeline for the temporary suspension, leaving open the possibility that the supply of inspected avocados could run out and thus effectively causing a halt on imports.
Rather than a security threat to U.S. government employees, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador chalked the suspension up to “economic [and] political interests” in his morning press conference on Monday.
The Mexican press reported Monday that the Association of Growers and Packers of Avocados from Mexico had initiated protection protocols for U.S. produce inspectors, but the association did not respond to Courthouse News’ request for specifics by press time.
While the suspension may serve as what crime expert Ernst called a “warning shot” to the Mexican government to protect U.S. inspectors, it could actually end up creating more instability for locals in Michoacán in the long run.
“You’re talking about the potential of weakening an economy that feeds a lot of law-abiding, hardworking people, and if they have fewer licit opportunities, that plays into the hands of organized groups,” said Ernst.
https://www.courthousenews.com/cart...fdndLjQeUPeJsyBW9kVbwx9gIfWho8PIM_rbJ5EHkw1VM
MEXICO CITY (CN) — As avocados from Mexico have grown increasingly popular on U.S. dinner tables in recent years, so has insecurity in the region in which they are cultivated, according to an expert on Mexican organized crime.
The fruit is one of several industries that organized criminal groups in Michoacán — the only Mexican state authorized to export to the United States — have terrorized and extorted over the past two decades.
“We’ve been seeing for the last 15 to 20 years a mutation of how conflict is fought in a way that places civilians increasingly in the crossfire of these foods,” said Falko Ernst, an analyst with the conflict resolution organization International Crisis Group, in an interview.
Ernst said that in addition to illegal drugs, criminal organizations in Michoacán and elsewhere in Mexico have taken to extorting legal enterprises such as lime production and iron mining as an easy way to make money.
Fostered by a culture of rampant state corruption, collusion and impunity, extortion has become a convenient business model for criminal groups.
“You don’t have to produce anything but a violent threat, against which you provide protection from yourself. It’s a very sound business model, beyond the ethics of it,” said Ernst.
These protection payments end up getting passed on to American consumers, who pay more for the extortion involved in the process of getting avocados north of the border from Michoacán.
“The going rate is about 20% for these protection payments,” said Ernst.
And this environment of unmitigated violence and impunity has increased displacement and forced migration from Michoacán.
“What drives these foods, and thus the humanitarian costs like displacements that are on the uptick in Michoacán and other areas, is the necessity for armed groups to stay in the game in terms of syphoning off profits and income from these larger industries,” said Ernst.
Immigration experts have seen the effects of these displacements in the form of larger numbers of Mexican asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“This trend first started being seen in 2018 and 2019,” said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy counsel and border issues specialist at the American Immigration Council. “They were primarily Mexican families and primarily from Michoacán and Guerrero.”
Back then, the Trump administration created the so-called Humanitarian Asylum Review Process, or HARP, to put Mexican citizens through a quick and cursory version of the asylum process.
Under HARP, Mexican asylum seekers were asked about the credible fear of returning to the situations they had fled while still in Customs and Border Patrol custody, rather than the normal process of first being transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention.
With the majority of credible fear claims denied, HARP served as a fast-track way of expelling most Mexicans from the United States. Later, the coronavirus pandemic offered the pretext of Title 42, which allows U.S. immigration officials to expel asylum seekers based on the supposed threat of Covid-19.
“In short, it was designed to prevent the increasing numbers of Mexican asylum seekers from getting into the country,” said Reichlin-Melnick.
Mexican avocado exports to the United States are big business. The USDA reports more than $2.4 billion worth of Michoacán's "green gold" went to U.S. supermarkets in 2020. But the U.S. halted inspections of avocados in Mexico on Saturday in response to an alleged threat to a U.S. produce inspector.
“The program will remain suspended until the security situation is reviewed and protocols and safeguards are in place for APHIS [Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service] personnel," the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said in a statement:
The embassy emphasized the halt was not on imports, but rather on inspections, and that “the suspension of the inspection program does not affect avocados in transit.”
However, it provided no timeline for the temporary suspension, leaving open the possibility that the supply of inspected avocados could run out and thus effectively causing a halt on imports.
Rather than a security threat to U.S. government employees, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador chalked the suspension up to “economic [and] political interests” in his morning press conference on Monday.
The Mexican press reported Monday that the Association of Growers and Packers of Avocados from Mexico had initiated protection protocols for U.S. produce inspectors, but the association did not respond to Courthouse News’ request for specifics by press time.
While the suspension may serve as what crime expert Ernst called a “warning shot” to the Mexican government to protect U.S. inspectors, it could actually end up creating more instability for locals in Michoacán in the long run.
“You’re talking about the potential of weakening an economy that feeds a lot of law-abiding, hardworking people, and if they have fewer licit opportunities, that plays into the hands of organized groups,” said Ernst.
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Who said they weren't in some capacity lol?
Nuanced analysis that difficult around here?
Just like they've always been in the opiate game too, but fentanyl and similar lab madness has caused a ramp up in their production/focus.
The demand for their weed products are at all time lows, while the demand for avocados is very high. As such, it's become a focus for cartels. The average American is eating literally twice as many avocados as they were 15 years ago and they happen to come from Mexico.
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I can tell when it is ripe. It's just the timing in terms of buying it and waiting.
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Should cause a boon for American avacado growers
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If your drugs that you use come from an illegal source, you are contributing to this. Even if they are legal or decriminalized in your area, your use of them enables criminals to profit and to continue to create chaos and suffering.
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Why do you hate American avocado growers?
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Not enough of them, and apparently it takes a few years to set up a farm properly for them to grow. Avocados will triple price on unit sales until then.
That seems to be a fact being avoided in this make-believe scenario.
Mafias didn’t invest heavily in Casinos because all the illegal money-markets were gone. Having a legal enterprise to connect a legit corporation to, tie “employees” to on paper, and funnel money visibly is EXTREMELY useful. Especially one that is massively involved in international, cross border transactions with the destination of the vast majority of your illegal product.
Would actually love to see this thinking widely applied in regards to our international trading partners.
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Why can’t you grow more in the states?
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I just had an avocado-and-tuna-on-toast sandwich sprinkled liberally with Jamaican jerk seasoning.
Shit's good, yo!
And I'm a Pennsylvanian!
Also, dry jerk seasoning is infinitely better than the wet jerk stuff. Infinitely.
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I love the fact the US government now has to sit down with the cartels to make a peaceful resolution to get avocados back flowing
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Water and it doesn't grow where it has extreme summer or winters. Prices will go up if you grow them in Amurica. I am also assuming the cartel extorted avocados is sold at a competitive rate to make money. We get them kinda cheap for the effort it takes to grow them.
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But enough water to thirst over a Billion animals a day?
Surely if as much of a focus was put on growing Vegetables like Avocados as it is to make $1 Steaks the solution could be found pretty easily.
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Avocados are reaaally tempermental for growing. There eas a mini docu on netflix on avocados and the cartels and it touches on growing too. I had no idea until after watching it that chocolate and avocado are probably the worst foods to buy if you want to stop criminal enterprise.
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I thought folks could grow them on their windowsills, I understand they are brittle and take time to bear fruit.
In my country most of the Avocados come from Peru, South Africa, Chile, Israel and Spain.
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People in the steak business aren't going to jump into Avocado growing. They don't have the support for it. If you look at the zones that they can grow avocado properly then it is pretty much right next to Mexico. Outside of Florida of course. Those zones are also the ones that are always complaining about water droughts. Our demand for the product is kinda crazy too.
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