Summary
- Highway bandits in Mexico stole over 40 tonnes of avocados in two separate robberies
- Avocados were taken in the western state of Michoacan, Mexico’s main producer of the fruit
- Armed men stopped freight trucks carrying around 20 tonnes each and stole the shipments
- Growers in Michoacan have faced extortion demands from drug cartels, with thefts of fruit from orchards not uncommon
