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User ID: 8919838 United States 11/06/2019 06:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Marijuana and cocaine were so 1980s - it's all about the avocados: Quoting: ElleMira -50% 4 of Mexico's cartels are fighting for control of the avocado business Avocado growers in Michoacan state, home to 80% of Mexico's production, are being targeted by four of the country's cartels. Avocado is an increasingly lucrative resource for criminal groups, and they have a history of shaking down the state's producers. Four competing drug cartels are extorting avocado producers in Michoacán, Mexico, showing how the fruit is becoming an increasingly important source of illicit profits in the context of shifting criminal dynamics in the state. The Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación — CJNG), the Nueva Familia Michoacana, the Tepalcatepec Cartel and the Zicuirán Cartel are all involved in this growing criminal economy, according to Michoacán's attorney general. Michoacán produces over 80% of Mexico's avocados, with an annual export value of around $2.4 billion, earning the fruit the nickname "green gold." ... Competition for these criminal profits has fed into the wave of violence currently engulfing Michoacán. In August 2019, 19 people were massacred in Uruapan, the center of Michoacán's avocado industry. Their bodies were displayed in three locations around the town. [link to www.businessinsider.com (secure)] Okay, this is worth a US invasion of Mexico. In his poem Human Pride, Marx admits that his aim is not to improve the world, reform or revolutionize it, but simply to ruin it and enjoy it being ruined: With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the face of the world, And see the collapse of this pygmy giant whose fall will not stifle my ardor. Then will I wander godlike and victorious through the ruins of the world And, giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator. “Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking in the radio for the announcer.” – Nasseim Haramein, Director of Research for the Resonance Project |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 78144800 New Zealand 11/06/2019 06:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | These criminal gangs learned well from the criminal gangs who run most countries how to build monopoly capitalism money machines. Quoting: Crypto-Tard Create demand through promotion and media, control the supply and pricing. Milk the consumer for all they are worth, leaving them in debt. i can guarantee that these same cartels are connected in someway to the pork industry :D |
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User ID: 78131101 Canada 11/06/2019 06:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Marijuana and cocaine were so 1980s - it's all about the avocados: Quoting: ElleMira -50% 4 of Mexico's cartels are fighting for control of the avocado business Avocado growers in Michoacan state, home to 80% of Mexico's production, are being targeted by four of the country's cartels. Avocado is an increasingly lucrative resource for criminal groups, and they have a history of shaking down the state's producers. Four competing drug cartels are extorting avocado producers in Michoacán, Mexico, showing how the fruit is becoming an increasingly important source of illicit profits in the context of shifting criminal dynamics in the state. The Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación — CJNG), the Nueva Familia Michoacana, the Tepalcatepec Cartel and the Zicuirán Cartel are all involved in this growing criminal economy, according to Michoacán's attorney general. Michoacán produces over 80% of Mexico's avocados, with an annual export value of around $2.4 billion, earning the fruit the nickname "green gold." ... Competition for these criminal profits has fed into the wave of violence currently engulfing Michoacán. In August 2019, 19 people were massacred in Uruapan, the center of Michoacán's avocado industry. Their bodies were displayed in three locations around the town. [link to www.businessinsider.com (secure)] I have boy cotted mexico! |
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(OP) User ID: 76494359 United States 11/06/2019 06:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | These criminal gangs learned well from the criminal gangs who run most countries how to build monopoly capitalism money machines. Quoting: Crypto-Tard Create demand through promotion and media, control the supply and pricing. Milk the consumer for all they are worth, leaving them in debt. Yes, this^ They are diversifying and finding more sophisticated ways to make money, globally. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 78078085 United States 11/06/2019 06:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is why the leftists in America fund & support these cartels. They get the drug money & force everyone (including us) to submit to their tyranny - or at least that's their gameplan. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77568399 United States 11/06/2019 07:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Watch the Netflix ROTTEN episode on avocados. Quoting: BilloutWest It details just how bad this is in both Mexico and South America. This involves the hoarding of water resources also. That is devastating to other farmers. I don't have Netflix but looks like a great mini-series: And when we had humane, small family farms and ranches that supplied locally, kids would grow up wanting to leave the farm for the city. I knew a bunch of old timers that said they enlisted into the military to escape farm and ranch life They told me stories of having to wake up at 4-5 in the morning to take care of the animals and it was non stop stinky work and youd still witness a lot of death and they couldnt wait to escape from it. |
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User ID: 73724632 United States 11/06/2019 07:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Watch the Netflix ROTTEN episode on avocados. Quoting: BilloutWest It details just how bad this is in both Mexico and South America. This involves the hoarding of water resources also. That is devastating to other farmers. I don't have Netflix but looks like a great mini-series: And when we had humane, small family farms and ranches that supplied locally, kids would grow up wanting to leave the farm for the city. I knew a bunch of old timers that said they enlisted into the military to escape farm and ranch life They told me stories of having to wake up at 4-5 in the morning to take care of the animals and it was non stop stinky work and youd still witness a lot of death and they couldnt wait to escape from it. I have to concur with that. Both sides of my family were farming families back in Canada and my relatives couldn't WAIT to get away. My grandma was even offered the entire farm if she would stay and look after here father and she said NO WAY. Personally I think their lives kind of sucked here in the States, but I guess they thought it was better than farming. People have no idea how hard farming is, including taking care of the animals. |
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