Alonso Urrutia and Alma Muñoz
La Jornada newspaper
Saturday April 12, 2025, p. 3
Even though in the last four years there has been drought in the Rio Bravo region, so there is no water availability, Mexico is in a condition to immediately deliver a significant number of millions of cubic meters to Texas farmers, in compliance with the bilateral agreement in the matter, said President Claudia Sheinbaum. He said he hopes that the rainy season brings more supply to make another installment in the second half of the year.
Regarding Donald Trump’s new threats to impose sanctions on Mexico for breach of the Bilateral Water Treaty, he hoped that an agreement from the proposal sent since Tuesday to the State Department, for which, for which, for which Maybe Trump did not know, there were work tables
.
– Would you not know sanctions?
“No, I don’t think.” As we know, it is the way to communicate of President Trump, but there is a work table to strengthen communication, because maybe what had worked with the State Department did not know the Ministry of Agriculture. Hopefully a good agreement will be reached.
He indicated that from the message of the US president in his social networks, threatening to impose tariffs if Mexico breaches the delivery of water to Texas, instructed the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Julio Berdegué, to contact his pair of the United States, Brooke Rollins, to operate compliance with the agreement.
Sheinbaum considered that the bilateral water treaty is fair, as it forces the neighboring country to deliver the resource of the Colorado River and Mexico, in turn, provides it with Texas. In fact, the United States gives more
.
However, he emphasized that the problem is not reluctant to fulfill the agreement, but of lack of liquid availability due to drought, so the International Limit and Water Commission is looking for technical alternatives. What has been argued is that there are a number of millions of cubic meters That must be delivered, but there is no, how is it provided? That is why it is the review, not of the treaty itself, but of the technical part
so that the problem of liquid cast can be solved.
There is another aspect that we are doing, that in fact the United States has long asked for it, and we do not do it for that, but because it is beneficial for Mexico, which is the technification of irrigation for the countryside.
The president recalled that her administration has a fundamental project to technify irrigation in the country, in order to achieve substantive savings of water. The irrigation districts contiguous to the Rio Bravo will begin to technify so that they do not have to use so and to be able to meet the treaty in later years.
On the other hand, to express question about the praise he received from Trump, he said that this arises mainly from the relationship of respect that has been built between both nations, based on bilateral respect. I think it’s that; It is a relationship of respect. You may or may not agree, but there must always be a relationship of respect
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On the awards he has received for his performance at this international situation of tariffs, he said: “First, thank, because you always have to thank. And second, do not believe The very very
because it doesn’t help at all. Here the important thing is that there is a town, there is a lot of town, and that is what gives us strength. She is not the president, it is this transformation movement. ”
