Day 676 — US Partially Resumes Avocado Inspections After Mexico Deploys 1,557 Troops to Michoacán

On August 8, 2026 (Day 676, Saturday), the U.S. Embassy began a partial resumption of avocado export inspections in Michoacán, three days after the August 5 suspension, covering the municipalities of Tancítaro, Tacámbaro, Uruapan, and the Morelia–Pátzcuaro corridor. The restart followed a security agreement under which the Mexican government deployed 1,557 Army and National Guard personnel to the avocado belt on August 6 and established a permanent coordination table to monitor conditions protecting U.S. inspectors. The resumption remained partial and contingent on continued security improvements, with full normalization pending across the roughly 60 export packing plants in the state.