President Donald Trump threatened to impose rates and possible sanctions against Mexico, if he continues to steal the south of the farmers of Rio Grande de Texas, promised under a treaty of decades.
In a publication about Truth Social on Thursday, Trump proclaimed that Mexico owes Texas 1.3 million water acres-water under the 1944 water treaty, thought that Mexico was violating its obligation.
“This is very unfair, and is harming farmers in southern Texas,” the president wrote. “Last year, the only sugar factory in Texas closed, because Mexico has been stealing the water from Texas farmers. Ted Cruz has been leading the fight to obtain southern Texas the water owed to it, but the dream Joe Refuss!”
Trump continued, saying that he will ensure that Mexico does not violate treatments with the United States and hurt farmers in Texas.
“Last month, I stopped water shipments to Tijuana until Mexico complies with the 1944 water treaty,” he said. “My Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, is defending Texas farmers, and we will continue increasing consequences, including rates and maybe even sanctions, until Mexico honors the treaty, and gives Texas the water they are oed!”
Texas agricultural groups warned about a disastrous season ahead of them for citrus and sugar, last year, since Mexican and American officials tried to solve a dispute over the 1944 water treaty that provides US farmers with a critical irrigation.
The two countries have fought for the treaty before, but the shortage of water driven by drought was the most severe in almost 30 years.
According to the treaty designed to assign shared water resources, Mexico will be required to send 1.75 million water acres-water from the Rio Grande to the United States around a five-year cycle.
The citrus industry of half billion dollars depends largely on the water of Mexico, especially with the drought conditions that become more severe in the region. In fact, Texas is the third largest citrus state behind California and Florida.
Last month, the desk for the affairs of the Western hemisphere published that he was denying a request from Mexico to deliver water to Tijuana.
“The continuous shorts of Mexico in their water deliveries under the treaty to share water of 1944 are decimating the farmers of American agriculture, positionally in the Valley of Rio Grande”, the agency written in the delivery channel X. For the water of the Colorado River that will be delivered to Tijuana. “
The previous day, Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, said that southern Texas faced a water crisis, which called a “crisis made by man.”
He also pointed out that he led the fight in the Senate to hold Mexico responsible and comply with the treaty to deliver water to farmers in southern Texas.
He shared the Office of Affairs of the Western Hemisphere “Post, calling to measure,” excellent. “
“As I said yesterday, this option is absolutely what the Trump administration needs to press Mexico to fulfill its obligations under the 1944 water treaty,” written Cruz in X. “Texas farmers are in crisis in the breach of Withe Mexico that meets and arrives water to Texas farmers.”