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Mexico's avocado militias
The Week via Yahoo News· 1 day agoLast month, highway thieves stole 40 tonnes of avocados in Mexico, according to the attorney general's office. Armed men stopped freight trucks in...
Shootings and extortion create ghost town in southern Mexico
Reuters via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThousands of residents deserted the small Mexican town of Tila, fleeing an intensive three-day siege...
Mexico's avocado militias
The Week· 1 day agoThe avocado's wholesome image is being tarnished by the arson, threats and killings involved in its production in Michoacán, Mexico. The country supplies...
Leader of drug operation receives two life sentences
The Albany Herald, Ga. via Yahoo News· 3 days agoMACON – The leader of a violent drug trafficking organization (DTO) who directed approximately 2,000 kilograms of cocaine from Mexico into the U.S. — much ...
Drug cartels: A link in every illegal fentanyl pill in South Dakota, not just on reservations
Argus Leader via Yahoo News· 3 days ago“Suggesting that there’s some sort of pipeline between Mexico and the reservations is silly,”...
Thousands of displaced residents in southern Mexico fear returning to their homes after violence
Houston Chronicle· 3 days agoThousands of residents displaced by violence that intensified this week in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas remained fearful Tuesday of returning to their homes. Authorities ...
What I learned during my visit to the U.S.-Mexico border | Rep. Jason Shoaf
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHundreds of them were members of gangs. Themigrants crossing the border are not just from Mexico and...
Thousands of displaced residents in southern Mexico fear returning to their homes after violence
U-T San Diego· 3 days agoThousands of residents displaced by violence that intensified this week in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas remained fearful Tuesday of returning to their homes. Authorities ...
DEA: Cartels now growing coca in Mexico
FOX 5 San Diego· 1 day agoEL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Two Mexican drug cartels “wholly control” some maritime ports where precursor chemicals for the deadly drug fentanyl are coming in. They also are cultivating coca p…
Baby and toddler among 6 family members shot dead at home in Mexico
CBS News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAuthorities say armed attackers burst into a home in the city...men survived because they saw the...