Make Guacamole, Not War

Does travel make us wiser but less happy, as Thomas Jefferson famously suggested in a letter to a friend?

I consider the question in a short piece on the escalating drug war in Michoacán and my own memories of traveling through the Mexican state, which also happens to be home to the largest avocado-producing region in the world.

The piece appears on World Hum and was also recently published on the Huffington Post.