Alex Sammon: Political journalist and Author of "Forbidden Fruit"

Alex Sammon a political journalist, went to Michoacán a state in Mexico that produces 80% of the United State’s avocados and a third of the global supply. It’s a multibillion dollar industry which draws avocado cartels and eco-democracies like the town Cherán whose indigenous people called the Purépecha kicked out loggers, police, and the local government in 2011 to start their own self-governed town that outlawed the growing of avocados.  Alex's article for Harper's is called "Forbidden Fruit."