Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday the US government’s recent suspension on avocado imports is part of a conspiracy against his country by high level political and economic interests just before the Super Bowl, the Associated Press reports.
López Obrador downplayed it a bit, saying his country’s tasty avocados had already made their way into the fourth or fifth layer of seven layer dips nationwide. “The truth, the Mexican avocados have already been exported. They already enjoyed the avocados,” López Obrador said at a news briefing, before his bluster shifted to anger. “In all of this there are also a lot of political interests and political interests, there is competition; they don’t want Mexican avocados to get into the United States, right, because it would rule in the United States because of its quality,” López Obrador said, without explaining what those interests were, but noted ominously, “There are other countries that are interested in selling avocados, as in the case of other farm products, so they lobby, they look for senators, professional (PR) people and agencies, to put up obstacles.”