Michoacan’s seaport of Lazaro Cardenas is valued by the cartels as an entry level for precursor chemical substances from China used to make meth and fentanyl. The state’s avocado orchards are additionally a chief goal for extortion, and cartels prior to now have mined Michoacan’s iron ore deposits to export to China.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/11-killed-in-western-mexico-state-of-michoacan/2021/11/02/ed8d0456-3c14-11ec-bd6f-da376f47304e_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world | 11 killed in western Mexico state of Michoacan
