The U.S. government shut down avocado imports from Mexico’s Michoacán state after a federal inspector received presumably a threatening phone message. Rather than accept the plausibility of wrongdoing in one of the most corrupt, drug cartel running parts of his country, Michoacán Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador dismissed the concern, arguing that there are probably political and economic reasons for the U.S. suspension. This is similar thinking to Russian President Vladimir Putin insisting that imported U.S. chicken legs come from separate and inferior plants than the ones delivering chicken breasts to Americans, as if using two separate plants to break the same $2 bird makes economic sense...

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