Mexico says the border should be reopening for cattle exports to the U.S. soon. It’s been closed for more than a month, after a flesh-eating worm parasite was reported in a cow in southern Mexico.
The state of Sonora’s agriculture secretary said the U.S. Department of Agriculture has finished its inspection of the cattle border crossings between Arizona and Mexico.
Mexico is now making changes at the Agua Prieta and Nogales crossings, which it said will be done in a week.
After that, U.S. authorities will reinspect and decide whether to re-open the crossings.
The United States closed its southwest border to cattle imports in November, after a New World Screwworm case was detected in a cow in the south of Mexico. The parasitic fly larvae burrow into the flesh of warm-blooded animals and can often be fatal. They were eradicated from the United States in 1966.
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Andrés Manuel López Beltrán says the revocation of his U.S. visa was politically motivated. -
The project to clean up sediment and soil in the Rio Sonora comes more than a decade after what Mexico considers the worst environmental mining disaster in its history. Some say the government and Grupo México could have done more and demand transparency. -
As officials turn to native trees to deal with urban heat, Sonora is hoping to create a "green lung" in the state capital. -
Mexican authorities have arrested a former Mexican governor accused of concealing evidence related to the case of 43 students who went missing in 2014. -
As summer temperatures have soared, so too have cases of dehydration and heatstroke in the Mexican state south of Arizona.
