ARMANDO SOLÍS

Workers sort avocados at a packing plant in Uruapan, Mexico Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Armando Solis)

Avocados, tequila and other iconic Mexican products are jeopardized by Trump’s tariff threats

Mexicans are worried that threats by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to impose 25% tariffs could affect a wide range of iconic Mexican products, some of which support entire regional economies.

A forensic investigator works the scene where a car bomb exploded near a police station, in Acambaro, Guanajuato state, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Armando Solis)

A car bomb explodes outside a police station in western Mexico, wounding 3 officers

A car bomb left outside a police station in western Mexico has wounded three people. Prosecutors in the violence-wracked state of Guanajuato said Thursday that the three were wounded in the town of Acambaro.

FILE - Communal police forest officers walk on seized pine logs they found hidden in the brush along the road while on patrol, on the outskirts of the Indigenous township of Cheran, Michoacan state, Mexico, Jan. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexico’s traditional and Indigenous community police come under fire from drug cartels

Mexico’s traditional and Indigenous community police forces are coming under increasingly deadly fire from drug cartels.

Relatives and friends carry the coffin that contain the remains of man slain in a mass shooting, during a funeral procession in Huitzilac, Mexico, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. The shooting in the mountain township beset by crime just south of Mexico City resulted in several deaths, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday’s elections than before

Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday’s elections that will determine the presidency, nine governorships and about 19,000 mayorships and other local posts.

A man shows a pump removed from an unlicensed water intake as his group of residents, farmworkers and small-scale farmers from Villa Madero dismantle illegal water taps in the mountains of Villa Madero, Mexico, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. As a drought in Mexico drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action on thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying up streams in the mountains west of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Armando Solis)

Angry farmers in a once-lush Mexican state target avocado orchards that suck up too much water

As Mexico’s drought drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action against thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying up streams in the mountains west of Mexico City.