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Fruit and crime: What the Mafia has to do with Italy’s lemon crop, how Mexican cartels control avocados, and more.
2 days, 22 hours ago

Fruit and crime: What the Mafia has to do with Italy’s lemon crop, how Mexican cartels control avocados, and more.

Slate  

This is part of Fruit Loot, which is taking a look at the strange and surprising links between fruit and money. “As you start to research the fruit business, you start to find out that there’s a lot of seediness in it.” Gollner, whose book, The Fruit Hunters, was published in 2008, had stumbled on one of the most aesthetically …

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The Mexican Mafia Tapes: How an informant nearly brokered a cartel alliance
3 months, 2 weeks ago

The Mexican Mafia Tapes: How an informant nearly brokered a cartel alliance

LA Times  

From a federal penitentiary in Virginia, Jose Landa-Rodriguez reconnected with an old friend in California. That’s been our Achilles heel from day one.” But when Rocha showed up at Moreno’s house in Fresno, “Mike starts backing out.” “This is what you became a carnal for,” Rocha said he told Moreno. Imprisoned on the other side of the country, Landa-Rodriguez was …

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Soldiers and civilians are dying as Mexican cartels embrace a terrifying new weapon: Land mines
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Soldiers and civilians are dying as Mexican cartels embrace a terrifying new weapon: Land mines

LA Times  

In one moment, a column of soldiers and military pickups creeps along a dirt road in western Mexico. “You live in fear every day — of land mines, of drones, of assassins,” said a rancher from the outskirts of El Aguaje, a contested town on the front lines of a war between the Jalisco cartel — known by its Spanish …

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Mexican Mafia member sentenced to 11 years for role in cartel alliance
2 years ago

Mexican Mafia member sentenced to 11 years for role in cartel alliance

LA Times  

Michael Moreno, a reputed member of the Mexican Mafia, has been jailed for more than nine years on a charge that he helped orchestrate a novel but ultimately thwarted alliance with a Mexican drug cartel that wanted to trade money and drugs for protection in prison and muscle on the streets. Out of my nine brothers, five of them are …

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‘We are trapped here.’ A Mexican town isolated by cartel terror
3 years, 8 months ago

‘We are trapped here.’ A Mexican town isolated by cartel terror

LA Times  

Franco Coppola, the Vatican’s diplomat to Mexico, greets people as he arrives to meet families and celebrate Mass in Aguililla, a town that has been cut off by warring cartels in Michoacan state, Mexico. “It’s part of his big plan to move into strategic areas where he can control various criminal activities.” Many in Aguililla are calling on the Mexican …

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