The thing is you have bandits, you have other criminals, you have corrupt police,

you have competition, you know, criminal groups in competition with the one I'm working with.

So what I will ask my criminal group of choice is to protect my land and business against other threats.

So I will now also pay the criminal group to protect my land, protect my

workers. And then I will probably ask the criminal group, because it's the way it works in many

regions of Mexico, to protect my trucks and protect my goods when they move from my land

to the processing areas and warehouses that take the produce and export it to the US.

How can I help? How can I be useful in ending needless suffering? Do not be afraid of work that has no end.

We have to organize a social movement.

We have an opportunity to lead by example,

versus just talking, hot air.

I think the more people in this fight, the more we grow,

eventually it could change.

The people are the ones that can make the change.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to change agents in Iron Cloud Original, presented by our

friends at Firecracker Farm. Today's episode is with Senior Expert for the Global Initiative

Against Transnational Organized Crime, Romaine LeCour. And it's about how cartels is with senior expert for the global initiative against transnational organized crime,

Romaine LeCour. And it's about how cartels are extorting the avocado industry in Mexico.

Green gold is what they call it. Remain's work often dives into topics such as organized crime,

militias, and territorial dynamics with with a particular focus on Mexico,

and his research has explored subjects like the role of self-defense groups

and cartels in reshaping territorial power in Mexico

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