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Why is the avocado a symbol of US and Mexico trade relations, and how has its soaring popularity impacted the only state allowed to export the fruit to a hungry US consumer?

Katy Watson speaks to Kenneth Smith Ramos from the embassy of Mexico in Washington about the benefits of NAFTA, to Yesenia Pena Sanchez an anthropologist on the history of the avocado, to growers and police in the Mexican State of Michoacan about the violence which has come with the fruit's amazing popularity.

(Photo: Fruit boxes with avocados during harvest at an orchard in the municipality of Uruapan, Michoacan State, Mexico. Credit: Getty Images)