Now rejects Mexico’s request for a special delivery of water for the first time – National

AND The US department of the state said yes United States declined no treatment of requests by Mexico For a special shipping channel for the Colorado River water be delivered to Tijuan.

“Mexico are permanent shortcomings in his deliveries of water under the 1944 Water Division Agreement a deciment of US agriculture-to farmers in the Rio Grande Valley,” the Ministry of the Western Hemisphere Office said In a post on X on Thursday.

“As a result, today it will now be killed by a Mexican non-trained request for a special channel of delivery for the Colorado River, which will be delivered to Tijuana,” the department added.

According to the 1944 contract, which manages the award of water from Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers, Mexico is obliged to transfer water to the United States every five years from two dams that divide the countries into Texas border.

The contract is set by five -year cycles for these delivery of water, with the latest scheduled ending in October 2025, but Mexico was lagging behind due to the conditions of drought.

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum He said the question is also important that it is resolved.

“They are processed (National Water Agency) Conagua and Cila (International Commission for Borders and Water), which is in charge of an overview of this contract,” sheinbaum commented on Thursday.

“There was less water. That’s part of the problem,” she told reporters.

Wednesday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz He said the host of a farmer and a rancer from all over Rio Grand Valley, adding that their “situation is terrible”.

“Mexico refuses to fulfill its obligations under the aquatic contract of 1944 to provide water from Rio Grande in the US, even as we go above and beyond our own obligations to give Mexico water. The effects on Texas were catastrophic,” Cruz wrote on the X.

“The last Congress introduced and made the first law imposed on the sanctions of Mexico and denied help for the mismatch,” Cruz continued. “I will soon repeat this Congress, but I also work with Trump’s administration to currently impose the consequences of Mexico.”

“Every option is on the table, not only the help of retaining, but also the water we have given Mexico, which can be done without violating our own obligations to the contract,” he concluded.

Earlier this month, the Board of Water, Agriculture and Rural Questions voted for the American State Department, ensuring that Mexico fulfilled its obligations to submit water to the United States

The Committee listened to the testimony of officials Rio Grande Valley on how Mexico’s failure in the delivery of water influenced local farmers and stopped growth.

“It really causes a lot of difficult problems not only for the valley, but along the river from El Pas to Brownsville,” Texas Senator Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa said at hearing.

“The reality is that even commercial growth of the valley is stunned because we can no longer issue a permit for the builder because there is no water,” Hinojosa said. “We hope that the current Trump administration will be much more aggressive in trying to solve the problem.”

State Senator Charles Perry said earlier that it would be “nice” if Trump’s administration could include a water contract in its tariff negotiations.

“It would be nice to include water release under a 1944 contract in those tariff negotiations so we can get a little relief in the valley,” Perry said.

This is not the only issue of water that Mexico and the US has faced in the last few months.

Since Trump took the post for the second time in January, Mexico and the United States clashed over the change of large body of water.

Sheinbaum said that Mexico would take legal procedures Against Google if a map shown to users based in the US has continued to indicate Gulf of Mexican As American Bay through the entire water body.

During a press conference in February, Sheinbaum argued that Trump’s command for renaming the water body refers only to part of the continental shelves under the control of the USA.

“What Google does here is changing the name of the continental shelf of Mexico and Cuba, which has nothing to do with Trump’s decree, which has only been used on the US continental shelf,” Sheinbaum said. “We disagree with this, and the Foreign Minister sent a new letter dealing with that question.”

As it stands now, the Gulf appears in Google Maps as a “US Bay” in the United States, as a “Mexican Bay” in Mexico, and the “Gulf of Mexican Bay” in Canada and elsewhere.

Sheinbaum has repeatedly rejected the moveclaiming that the name of the “Mexican Bay” has long been recognized abroad. On February 13 she said Google did not solve Earlier complaints of Mexico.

“If necessary, we will file a civil lawsuit,” she said. “Even President Trump does not suggest that the whole Mexican bay be called” American Bay “, but only their continental shelf. So Google is wrong.”

The first time Trump mentioned the idea of ​​changing the name of the Mexican Gulf, Sheinbaum replied sarcastically, suggesting the renaming of North America to “América Mexican” or “Mexican America”, because it is an founding document of 1814 that preceded the Mexican Constitution in this way.

“Sounds beautiful, doesn’t it?” She added with a sarcastic tone.

– With files from Reuters

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