Prices nothing is simple or easy to understand in Mexico

Aguacateros themselves do not haul their product to the mercado de abastos in Morelia. I cannot haul my mangos haden, I tried and was refused with threats. It has to be arranged through a coyote and I was informed my 2016 crop would render a lot less money. I have friends with huertas aguacates in Uruapán Michoacan. It is the same for them. By the time the coyotes take their bite, we work for next to nothing. So I have abandoned my mangos. It just is not worth it. My neighbor and friend Eduardo Chacón did the same with 317 hectarias and fled with family to the USA as indocumentos. Our huertas are in Chucutitán Michoacan. La tierra caliente.

I have no idea what these things mean for the retail market, but Armando my friend in Uruapán is threatening to let the fruit rot on the trees. He owns many hundreds of hectarias of mature trees. They threaten the people who work to pick the fruit. They too have to pay sicarios in order to work.

So it is not just teachers or strikes. It is complicated.