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Subject: Tostadas
gt_tdi 17.11.20 - 04:18am
It looks like the one on the left is menstruating. * +
sourface 17.11.20 - 04:53am
I'll pass I'd rather have a galaxy ripple. * +
shadow27 17.11.20 - 06:36am
You *would* know what that looks like, wouldn't you?
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shadow27 17.11.20 - 06:39am
Earlier this month, Mexican officials discovered the body of a second murdered activist who worked at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in the mountains of Michoacan.
Reports on the murders say clandestine avocado farms had something to do with the two deaths. Mexican drug cartels have broken into the lucrative avocado business in the state of Michoacan, where most of the avocados imported to the U.S. come from.
For several years, the cartels have been diversifying their portfolios to include a range of legal economies in addition to drugs, says Eduardo Moncada, an assistant political science professor at Barnard College. * +
shadow27 17.11.20 - 06:40am
''Avocados represent a major source of income in the state of Michoacan in Mexico,'' says Moncada, who is writing a book in part about extortion in Michoacan. ''And as such, they've been mobilizing to try and capture money from that sector.''
The cartel engages in extortion of avocado producers, transporters and packers to gain control over the sector. By taking over lands used to produce avocados, they become ''informal owners'' of the fields and profit from sales, he says. * +
shadow27 17.11.20 - 06:42am
The cartels are broadening their portfolios beyond avocados, too. Taking control of land - like the butterfly reserve - allows them to produce more agricultural goods, and the wood and timber there is also valuable, he says.
Mexico's war on drugs began in 2006 under the reign of former President Felipe Calderon. On top of the violence that the conflict unleashed, it also fragmented the countrys handful of large cartels to many smaller ones, he says.
''In order to survive and thrive in that kind of context, the cartels began to diversify their portfolios in a way to try and gain resources,'' he says. * +
shadow27 17.11.20 - 06:44am
By KATE LINTHICUM
NOV. 21, 2019
URUAPAN, Mexico -
The cartel members showed up in this verdant stretch of western Mexico armed with automatic weapons and chainsaws.
Soon they were cutting timber day and night, the crash of falling trees echoing throughout the virgin forest. When locals protested, explaining that the area was protected from logging, they were held at gunpoint and ordered to keep quiet.
Stealing wood was just a prelude to a more ambitious plan. * +
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