TV Specials
News Reports
- 4 of Mexico’s Cartels Are Fighting for Control of the Avocado Business – Insider
- Avocado Cartels” The Violent Reality Behind “Green Gold” – INTELIGENCIA
- How many people were kidnapped, tortured and murdered for your avocado? IAN BIRRELL on how violent Mexican cartels have realised the fashionable fruit is more profitable than drugs – Daily Mail
- How Mexico’s lucrative avocado industry found itself smack in the middle of gangland – The Conversation
- How the Avocado Became Key to Mexican Drug Cartel Turf War – Newsweek
- How we got to peak avocado: Super Bowls to Mexico’s drug cartels – Los Angeles Times
- Inside the Bloody Cartel War for Mexico’s Multibillion-Dollar Avocado Industry – Los Angeles Times
- Mexican Avocados’ Ties To Drug Cartels And Deforestation Are An Open Secret – HuffPost Latest News
- Mexico cartels blamed for squeezing avocado industry – News@TheU
- Mexican cartels extorting avocado producers raises price of guacamole, report says – Fox News
- Mexican cartels seize the avocado market – ABC 7 Denver
- Mexican Cartels Used Government Data to Kidnap and Extort Avocado Farmers – Newsweek
- Mexican drug cartels are getting into the avocado and lime business – NPR
- Mexico’s avocados face fallout from violence, deforestation – NBC News
- That Super Bowl guacamole you’re eating probably had a risky trip through cartel territory – The Courier Journal
- The avocado police protecting Mexico’s green gold – BBC News
- They’re not avocados, they’re ‘green gold,’ and hyperviolent drug cartels have sights set on them – USA Today
Resistance
- 3,000 Michoacán avocado producers arm themselves against cartels – Mexico Daily News
- As Mexican drug cartels cut in on avocado sales by extorting growers, armed locals fight back – USA Today
- As Mexican drug cartels muscle in on massive avocado sales, armed civilians fight back – The Courier Journal
- Avocado Farmers Take Up Arms As Mexico Violence Spikes – International Business Times
- Mexican town protects forest from avocado growers, cartels – AP News
- Mexico’s avocado army- how one city stood up to the drug cartels – The Guardian