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How Mexico’s cartels infiltrated the tortilla business

www.washingtonpost.com How Mexico’s cartels infiltrated the tortilla business

Mexico’s cartels are expanding beyond drugs, creating vast extortion networks. They’re shaking down a host of businesses, including producers of the tortilla.

https://archive.ph/yvTHC

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Is this a Pablo Francisco skit?
- Little Tortilla Boy
- National Tortilla Council.
  
  Mexico having a national tortilla council caught me unawares.
  
  But the stranglehold the cartels have on the entire country is horrorifying for everyone in Mexico.
  
  Wait til you hear about Canada's Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve. Which got (partially) stolen in 2010. Oops.
- I hadn't thought of this in yeeears. I think I still have it memorized.
Is this why I have to have tortillas? What if I overdose?

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