Organized crime is costing Mexican agriculture

According to the Spanish newspaper El País on December 24, organized crime is costing Mexican agriculture.

According to the report, on December 8, a confrontation between farmers and killers occurred in the town of Tescalitlan, 125 kilometers from the capital, in Mexico, leaving 14 bodies. As can be seen from this recorded terrorist incident, the entire production chain of agricultural activities is in darkness due to extortion by criminal groups. In all aspects of land use, production, harvesting and marketing, the entire rural area succumbed to the party's charges.

Organized crime is costing farmers on the habitats they depend on. In the last three years, in addition to the inevitable consequences of climate change, the lack of aid and the aging of Mexico's agricultural population, this violent environment has led to the abandonment of 4 million hectares of crops and the migration of young people, in addition to the inevitable consequences of climate change, the lack of aid and the aging of Mexico's agricultural population.

Guerrero is one of the richest and most violent regions in Mexico. But in such a place where "the mode of production is 60 years behind", agricultural activities have not left good results. Much of the area there is still cultivated with livestock. Young people are no longer content with the generational "rural slavery". Poverty and violence are forcing people off their farms, where 70 percent of the rural population is over the age of 50.

All countries subsidize agriculture, but Mexico has taken drastic measures to combat corruption and has long since canceled the agricultural support program.

Five years ago, the party leaders began to extort money from farmers in some states, first according to the harvest, now according to the area of land. Everywhere in Guerrero, Durango, etc., people suffer from this kind of suffering. Criminals have taken over all links in the agricultural production and marketing chain.

The spiral is still spinning, the report said. Those who leave the countryside and cross the border send money to keep their families afloat without more resources for production, leaving only women, children and the elderly in some towns. (Compiled by Awakening).