Mexico holds the United States responsible for the resurgence of the pest of sweeping worms that affects livestock

Recent news such as Donald Trump’s tariff war, the handing over of 29 drug traffickers to the United States by the Mexican government, including Caro Quintero, and even the most recent disputes between Claudia Sheinbaum’s government and Washington over water debts, or the closure of the border to Mexican cattle by the plague of the sweeping worm, make us constantly wonder what happens to foreign policy and how it can articulate effective respons…

Julio Berdegué detailed that in May 2024 Mexico launched a series of preventive measures to control the worm sweeper

Mexico has complied 100% with the actions that the U.S. government has requested to combat the plague of the worm sweeper, “they were attended to in hours or maximum in days, because it is in our interest that the campaign works well, not only for exports, but for the health of the animals of our cattle ranchers,” said the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Julio Berdegué. He trusted that the strengthening of the measures will allow…

The crisis caused by the sweeping worm that affects livestock has raised tension between Mexico and the United States. Claudia Sheinbaum’s government has held Washington responsible for the resurgence of the plague, caused by the Cochliomya hominivorax fly and which was controlled for the last three decades. Secretary of Agriculture Julio Berdegué has pointed out that the U.S. manages in Panama the only laboratory in which the sterile fly is pro…

Mexico on Tuesday blamed the United States for the spread of the screwworm, asserting that the country was responsible for controlling the pest when it was located south of Panama and now refuses to cooperate in opening a fly factory…

Proprietary of Agriculture blames the EU for the plague of the worm sweeper in cattle because they did not control its expansion since the 2023.