With clever Super Bowl ads, an irresistible fruit and apparently insatiable appetite from US consumers, Mexico’s avocado producers have been so far able to separate avocados from the conflictive landscape that produces them — at least until a threat to a US agricultural inspector essentially shut down their exports last week. But as producers continue … Read more
Activists from Mexico’s Purepecha people used axes and sledgehammers Monday to knock down statues of their ancestors being forced to haul and work stones by a colonial-era Spanish priest. The Purepechas have objected to the statues since they were erected in 1995 in the capital of western Michoacán state, Morelia, and have repeatedly called for … Read more
One day after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador slammed the door on a rescue plan to help Mexican companies overcome the coronavirus pandemic, some Mexicans are afraid that the timid response will strike a fatal blow at the small businesses that run the second largest economy in Latin America. Rather than following the lead of … Read more