MEXICO CITY • Super Bowl fans may have to go without guacamole this year if avocado farmers in Mexico cannot send their fruit to the United States because of a prolonged fuel shortage.
Like clockwork, Mexican producers ship thousands of metric tons of avocado to the United States in early February every year, where guacamole is a staple living room snack on Super Bowl Sunday.
But the Mexican government's efforts to clamp down on years of mounting fuel theft has a prompted a week-long fuel shortage that has left many states in central and western Mexico high and dry.