Картели в Мексике обкладывают производство авокадо и лайма налогами - и, о, какое совпадение! - изобрели институт налоговых агентов:
SIMON: Is this what - I say this as a Chicagoan - we would call in the United States a protection racket? - I mean, members of the cartel who will say to a farmer, you know, nice farm you got here. It would be a shame if something happened to it. But you can pay us this fee, and it'll be safe.
GREEN: Right. I think there's definitely some of that. And, you know, the dynamics of how this business work, they're complicated. So it's not just so cut and dry that a cartel member goes to the farm and says, give me X amount of money. What I've been told is that, essentially, the packing plant says, we are going to pay the farmers, again, $100. The cartel members would say, don't pay them $100. Pay them $90, and you give us that extra $10. So at the end of the day, the farmers are still paying the price, but it may not be so directly that the cartel members are going straight to the farmers.