[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Mexico grows almost half avocados sold globally, nicknamed as 'green gold'
- US sales have risen almost fivefold this century and have also surged in the UK
- Almost all of Mexico’s avocados are grown in fertile volcanic soil of Michoacán
- About 20 gangs, including Los Viagras and Jalisco New Generation, have seized 35 per cent of the £1.9 billion sector in this state alone
- One collective of 40 farmers is being forced to pay £500K a month to gangsters
- Michoacán became one of the most blood-soaked parts of our planet after cartels fought to control vast profits from cocaine, heroin and cannabis
- The price of heroin has crashed due to synthetic opioid alternatives, cannabis is legal in much of North America – and violence has surged in Mexico with a record toll of murders as gangs diversify into avocados and mining
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