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Monday, July 16, 2012

Mexican eggs smuggled to Guatemala despite border inspections

...However, by the river on rafts Suchiate keep passing hundreds of boxes of Mexican eggs smuggled into Guatemala. Unofficial figures monthly cross talk that 30 000 boxes of eggs.
The Government of Guatemala through the Ministry of Health has insisted on the request to its residents to avoid eating the Mexican product.
In the border area before buying, Guatemalans traders questioned whether the product they sell is Mexican or of their country and it depends on the purchase.
The Mexican egg for the peso with the quetzal, is cheaper (1 quetzal the piece), while the more expensive Guatemalan tilefish (1.25 quetzals to the piece).
Last week the National Civil Police of Guatemala seized a contraband cargo entered his country valued at 200 thousand quetzals and the carrying 50 boxes of Mexican egg.  http://noticias.terra.com.mx/mexico/estados/preocupa-huevo-mexicano-a-guatemaltecos,e1a7a5f932298310VgnVCM10000098cceb0aRCRD.html