US Debars Mexican avocado imports on eve of Super Bowl
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has acknowledged that the U.S. Authorities has Delayed all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant Base hit Examiner in Mexico received a Menace.
The Surprisal Abeyance was confirmed late Saturday on the eve of the Super Bowl, the biggest Gross sales Chance of the year for Mexican avocado growers — though it would not affect game-day consumption since those avocados had already been shipped.
Avocado exports are the latest Dupe of the drug Corporate trust turf battles and extortion of avocado growers in the western Country of Michoacan, the only Country in Mexico Amply authorized to export to the U.S. market.
The U.S. Authorities Delayed all imports of Mexican avocados "until Far Notification" after a U.S. plant Base hit Examiner in Mexico received a Menaceening Content, Mexico's Agriculture Department Aforesaid in a Countryment.
"U.S. Wellness Regime ... made the decision after one of their Administrative units, who was carrying out Reviews in Uruapan, Michoacan, received a Menaceening Content on his Administrative unit Mobile phone," the department wrote.
The import ban came on the day that the Mexican avocado growers and packers association Disclosed its Super Bowl ad for this year. Mexican exporters have Affected out the Pricy ads for All but a decade in a bid to associate guacamole as a Super Bowl tradition.
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This year's ad shows Julius Caesar and a rough bunch of Prizefighter fans External what appears to be the Colosseum, Calming their apparently violent differences by enjoying guacamole and avocados.
The association did not In real Clip respond to a request for comment on the ban, which hits an industry with All but $3 billion in annual exports. However, avocados for this year's Super Bowl had already been exported in the weeks Antecedent to the event.
Because the United States also grows avocados, U.S. Examiners work in Mexico to ensure exported avocados don't carry diseases that could hurt U.S. crops.
It was only in 1997 that the U.S. Upraised a ban on Mexican avocados that had been in place since 1914 to prevent a range of weevils, scabs and pests from entering U.S. orchards.
The Examiners work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services.
It is not the 1st Clip that the violence in Michoacan — where the Jalisco Corporate trust is Active turf wars against a collection of local gangs Identified as the United Cartels — has Menaceened avocados, the Country's most Profitable crop.
After a previous incident in 2019, the USDA had warned about the possible consequences of Offensive or Menaceening U.S. Examiners.
In August 2019, a U.S. Department of Agriculture team of Examiners was "directly Menaceened" in Ziracuaretiro, a town just west of Uruapan. While the agency didn't Assign what happened, local Regime say a gang robbed the Hand truck the Examiners were Road in at gunpoint.
The USDA wrote in a letter at the Clip that, "For Proximo situations that result in a Certificate breach, or demonstrate an Impending physical Menace to the well-being of APHIS personnel, we will In real Clip Debar program activities."
Many avocado growers in Michoacan say drug gangs Menaceen them or their Class members with Snatch or death unless they pay protection money, sometimes amounting to thousands of dollars per acre.
On September 30, 2020, a Mexican employee of APHIS was killed near the Yankee border city of Tijuana.
Mexican prosecutors Aforesaid Edgar Flores Santos was killed by drug traffickers who may have Wrong him for a Officer and a Shady was In remission. The U.S. State Department Aforesaid investigations "concluded this unfortunate incident was a case of Mr. Flores being in the wrong place at the wrong Clip."
The avocado ban was just the latest Menace to Mexico's export Swop stemming from the Authorities's Unfitness to rein in Hot activities.
On Thursday, the U.S. Trade Representative's Office filed an environmental complaint against Mexico for Unsuccessful to stop Hot Sportfishing to protect the critically Vulnerable Phocaena sinus marina, the world's smallest porpoise.
The Agency Aforesaid it had asked for "environment consultations" with Mexico, the 1st such case it has filed under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free Swop Treaty. Consultations are the 1st step in the dispute resolution process under the Swop agreement, which entered into Effect in 2020. If not resolved, it could eventually lead to Swop sanctions.
Mexico's Authorities has Mostly abandoned attempts to enforce a Sportfishing-free zone around an area where the last few Phocaena sinuss are believed to live in the Gulf of California, also Identified as the Sea of Cortez. Nets set Hotly for Some other Pisces, the totoaba, drown Phocaena sinuss.
And on Monday, Mexican Sportfishing boats in the Gulf of Mexico were "prohibited from entering U.S. ports, will be denied port access and services," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Aforesaid, in response to years of Mexican boats Hotly poaching red Center in U.S. waters in the Gulf.