Mexico Truckers Show Trade Fragility at the Border: Supply Lines

Every day at least 20,000 commercial trucks cross the US-Mexico border with goods as varied as avocados, auto parts and flat screens. Or at least they’re supposed to.

A series of on-and-off, coordinated blockades by truck drivers and farmers over the last several weeks have exposed the fragility of Mexico’s highway network, an artery for as much as 95% of national and international cargo moving to and from the rest of the world.

Drivers demanded Mexican authorities to put a halt to an epidemic of robberies and assaults. According to estimates by trucker’s associations, on average there are 70 assaults ...