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Americans Love Avocados. It’s Killing Mexico’s Forests. | La obsesión de EE. UU. con el aguacate está acabando con los bosques mexicanos (www.nytimes.com)
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La obsesión de EE. UU. con el aguacate está acabando con los bosques mexicanos La deforestación ilegal para cultivar el preciado fruto apunta a un comercio sangriento de exportación que involucra amenazas, secuestros y asesinatos.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is up with “Estados Unidos” being “EE. UU.”? Is this like that weird rule in Latin anatomy?

[–] Legge 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, I think it comes from the same rule. Estados Unidos is plural, so the abbreviation is doubled single letters. Sometimes English does this too (pp. for pages or §§ for sections). There are other examples in Spanish too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know what its origin is (maybe a native speaker can weigh in) but it's standard.