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Nov 1 2009, Oscar

Mexico’s Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Jeffrey Max Jones, has resigned after causing a stir by announcing Mexican farmers could learn a thing or two from their drug farming narco counterparts.

Farmers “should follow the example of drug..

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FILE - In this June 7, 2005 file photo, rice from Arkansas fields is loaded onto a barge on the Arkansas River in North Little Rock, Ark. With President Barack Obama easing some travel restrictions to Cuba this April, 2009, U.S. agricultural groups have..