A federal judge declared the 2020 Presidential Decree to eliminate the use of the herbicide glyphosate and transgenic corn in Mexico by 2024 unconstitutional.

Francisco Javier Rebolledo, Sixth District Judge in Administrative Matters, granted this [July 12] an injunction to the company Monsanto, inventor of glyphosate and a subsidiary of the German giant Bayer, against the decree issued by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on December 31, 2020.

The sentence… which only benefits Monsanto, establishes that the Decree lacks legal grounds and motivation and does not explain the reasons for alleging health risks derived from transgenic corn or glyphosate, the herbicide most used by the industry. world agricultural.

The Government has ten days to challenge the protection before a collegiate circuit court, which will be the last instance, unless the Supreme Court of Justice attracts the case.

The planting of transgenic corn in Mexico has been suspended since 2013, due to a collective action before a civil court, but the country is the world’s largest importer of corn, much of which comes from the United States and is genetically modified.

[Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Spanish and has been translated and edited for clarity.]

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