U.S., Mexico settle avocado spat, Mexican president criticizes U.S.

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Monday criticized the U.S. government’s withdrawal of inspectors from avocado packing houses, even as both sides in the dispute said that exports to the United States would resume. The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture halted inspections in the violence-plagued state of Michoacán on June 15 after two of its employees were “attacked and detained,” according to Ken Salazar, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico. The move effectively blocked shipments to the United States of both avocados and mangoes from Michoacán, paralyzing a…