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AVOCADO WAR
04
Michoacán 
05
Important dates in history
03
NAFTA 
02
Noel Stehly
01
Avocado Characteristics
BEGINNING
TIMELINE
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TIMELINE

BEGINNING

Avocado Characteristics

01

Noel Stehly

02

NAFTA

03

Important dates in history

05

Self defense

06

Michoacán

04

Chile

07

Conclusion

08

AVOCADO WAR

THE END

The avocado is a fruit with a thick and hard green rind whose tone depends on the variety, it has an oily pulp from cream to yellowish green, and its name is derived from the term Ahuacatl of the Aztec dialect (means testicle). In addition, this fruit is considered a financial power in the agricultural industry and is known as green gold, for which people do whatever it takes to get hold of it.

The story of the spread of this fruit begins in California with Noel Stehly who is a second generation farmer in Valley center and his farm led to the access of avocado in the USA.

In 1993 comes the NAFTA which is the free trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico, and at this time the avocado producers of the United States feared for their income since the producers of Mexico produce up to 15 times more avocados than the United States.

Self-defense groups arise for local protection.

When the agreement began to develop in Michoacán were disarming the old criminal cartels that grew with drug trafficking and so the avocado began to charge a greater role to make easy money, And so agriculture and drug trafficking flourished together, and some of the cartels involved in this business were: the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas.

In the mid-1990s, Chile began to increase the production and export of avocados to North America, and this increased access to water rights in this country. However, the problem of dry rivers in Chile has been a factor that notably influences in the production and work of Chilean farmers.

The history of violence, drug trafficking and war that hides behind the avocado is very extensive and should be known by consumers, and also that it is important to establish an avocado certification system in order to generate conflict-free consumption of avocados.

  • In 2006 President Felipe Calderon generates a movement to end the cartels
  • In 2009, criminal groups handled some 150 million dollars a year in the avocado business.
  • In 2010, the Michoacán family fractured and the subgroup Los Caballeros Templarios was formed, which extorted avocado producers.
  • In 2011 the export of avocado from Michoacán was worth almost 800 million dollars and the cartels began to kidnap relatives of successful farmers.