Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will visit Hermosillo on Saturday to meet with Sonoran officials as she nears a year in office.
The visit comes as the Mexico-U.S. border continues to be closed to cattle from Mexico to prevent the spread of the New World screwworm parasite. Although the flesh-eating fly larva hasn’t been detected in cattle in Sonora, Sonoran ranchers have been unable to export to the United States for months.
Sheinbaum says she will soon announce a plan to support ranchers affected by the closure.
Her meeting in the border region also comes days after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in which the two countries promised to continue collaborating on security issues. Sheinbaum is under pressure to ward off a threat of heightened tariffs from the Trump administration.
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