Jeffrey Max Jones, Mexico's Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, ruffled some feathers when he suggested that Mexico's farmers could learn some lessons in efficiency from Mexico's notorious drug cartels.
Jones told the Mexican newspaper Reforma that farmers "should follow the example of drug traffickers because they produce what the market demands."
Jones probably has a point about the cartels' mastery of their business, given that the drug trade gives a $50 billion/year boost to Mexican GDP and Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman this year made Forbes' billionaire list.
But as violence from the drug trade continues at a horrific rate, Jones would be well advised to avoid future calls to imitate the cartels' methods.
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Online Sources: AP, Google News, Reforma, Forbes, The Independent (UK)
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