The Latest Breaking News from Michoacán

Mexico’s cash crop has been an attractive business enterprise for American taste buds and crime cartels

SAN DIEGO — On a foggy night in mid-March, several family members from the Mexican state of Michoacán followed smugglers' instructions to climb the first of two border barriers to reach U.S. soil near San Diego.

The army has reclaimed the village school that became a battlefield but few believe cartels’ bloody reign has ended

Armando Linares López gunned down six weeks after mourning the murder of a colleague in the same city in Michoacán state

To the relief of avocado lovers from coast to coast, the recent drama between the United States and Mexico was fleeting.

Almost all of America’s avocados come from a single Mexican state. A threatening message threw it into disarray.

LOS ANGELES — A security spat between the U.S. and Mexico that threatens the avocado supply in the U.S. is putting the spotlight on California farmers, a major U.S. supplier of the fruit.

The avocado-producing state of Michoacán has been riven with violence between the Jalisco cartel and an alliance of smaller gangs

The green fruit has become less ubiquitous on local tables as criminal gangs fight over the trade, driving diners to distraction

Humans have been eating avocados on this continent for some 10,000 years or possibly longer, according to the archeological record. And we've been doing it more or less the same way the whole time, by mashing the tree's fruit into a pulpy paste known as guacamole.