On Friday, the House voted to approve the fiscal year 2025 State, Foreign Operations & Related Programs, or SFOPS, appropriations bill — part of which included first-of-their-kind financial sanctions against Mexico, which is failing to abide by an 80-year-old water sharing treaty with the U.S.
But with the next cycle deadline of October 2025 fast approaching, Mexico has fallen so far behind that its reservoirs no longer contain enough water to meet the deficit.
What the fucking fuck?!
Those fucking psychopaths actually want to punish Mexico for experiencing a drought?
Ah - just went and read the article, and what it actually centers on is a sugar cane industry that’s been wedged into south Texas (undoubtedly with big fat bribes paid to politicians).
Sugar cane is notoriously water-intensive, and likely should’ve never been grown in south Texas in the first place. It’s near certain that the sugar cane industry is actually the most significant proximate cause of the very drought conditions that are now a problem. So in effect, it’s the US, at the behest of Texas legislators and interests, wanting to punish Mexico because the Texas sugar cane industry wasted all of the available water and still wants more.
A similar entirely contrived “problem” exists in south Florida, in which the heavily subsidized sugar cane industry and their legion of wholly corrupt politicians are the proximate cause of the draining of the Everglades.