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LatinNews Daily - 07 November 2018

In brief: Mexico

* A strike in the Mexican state of Michoacán’s avocado industry has been resolved after the Mexican association of producers and packagers of export avocados (Apeam) successfully mediated between producers and packagers. Producers went on strike last week and blocked the transport of avocados destined for export to the US, as well as the national market, to protest against the current conditions of production and commercialisation of the fruit after a recent drop in prices. Local producers are demanding a fairer price from packagers and accuse them of purchasing cheap ‘pirate’ avocados from other states and then selling them on in the US as Michoacán-grown. Overall 328 lorries were prevented from delivering their avocado cargo, of which 128 were destined to the US. Victor Mánriquez González, city councillor for Uruapan, in Michoacán, said that the total economic impact of the strike was hard to measure, but that it had caused the loss of 50,000 tonnes of the fruit and affected at least 15,000 families.

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