The epicenter of Mexican avocado production lies in the state of Michoacán, one of the most dangerous areas in the country.
The Mexican avocado industry could lose an estimated $8.5 million a day for as long as the United States continues a suspension it enacted Saturday night after a U.S. plant safety inspector"received a threatening call."
While Mexico's agricultural ministry did not touch on the affiliations of the caller, this message comes at a time when the Michoacán region, where avocados come from, faces an ongoing drug. U.S. agricultural employees have been threatened while working in the region in past years. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador did not take kindly to the news, stating in a news briefing that the decision to suspend the avocado trade could be due to other outside interests.
"In all of this there are also a lot of political interests and political interests, there is competition; they don't want Mexican avocados to get into the United States, right, because it would rule in the United States because of its quality," López Obrador said in a news brief reported by the Associated Press.
Michoacán is one of the most dangerous states in Mexico and is listed on the State Department's"Do Not Travel" list. A farmer loads fruit boxes with avocados onto a truck at an orchard in the municipality of Uruapan, Michoacán State, Mexico, on October 19, 2016.While he did not explain those interests, re-establishing the avocado trading relationship would appear to be an economic priority of his administration.
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