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Route to Super Bowl dangerous for Mexico's avocado haulers
1 month ago | By Boston Herald
It is a long and sometimes dangerous journey for truckers transporting the avocados destined for guacamole on tables and tailgates in the United States during the Super Bowl.
It starts in villages like Santa Ana Zirosto, high in the misty, pine-clad mountains of the western Mexico state of Michoacan. The roads are so dangerous - beset by drug cartels, common criminals, and extortion and kidnap gangs - that state police provide escorts for the trucks brave enough to face the 40-mile trip to packing and shipping plants in the city of Uruapan.
Truck driver Jesús Quintero starts early in the...
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