2020

The Dallas Morning News on sotol, the border and the USMCA

A dirt road through Chihuahuan desert grassland with a tall sotol flower stalk and mountains behind

The Dallas Morning News · 29 January 2020

Sotol turns up in a trade negotiation. This piece covers the fight over geographic protection for the spirit during the USMCA talks, and what it meant for producers on both sides of the Texas line. Juan Pablo Carvajal appears on the question of who the tradition belongs to, and the reporting reaches the sixth-generation distillers behind Los Magos.

"There is a history that we share," said Juan Pablo Carvajal, founder of a Mexican sotol brand called Los Magos.

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