MEXICO CITY — You will need a larger bowl.
Highway bandits in Mexico made off with more than 40 tons of avocados, federal prosecutors said Friday.
The Attorney General’s Office said the avocados were stolen in two separate robberies in the western state of Michoacán, the main producer of the fruit in Mexico.
In both cases, armed men stopped cargo trucks carrying about 20 tons each and stole the shipments. Avocados are usually shipped in boxes, which would make moving the load easier and faster.
Avocado growers have long been the target of extortion demands from drug cartels in Michoacán, and thefts of fruit from avocado orchard trees are not unknown. But seizures of entire shipments are rare.
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