.​How Mexico’s lucrative avocado industry found itself smack in the middle of gangland || by Jeffrey Miller :: The Conversation

In 1997 California use to provide 90% of the avocados consumed in the US. Today, as the result of changes implemented as part of NAFTA, Mexico provides 80% of a much larger avocado consumption in the U.S. The avocado trade high prices and high profit margins have attracted the interest of the Mexicans crime cartels. A major disruption of this market could have a major negative effect on the American consumer as briefly shown during the U.S. Department of Agriculture ban of avocado imports from Mexico on February this year Read more