LatinNews Daily - 11 December 2025

*Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has said talks are continuing with the US to reach an agreement after US President Donald Trump threatened an additional 5% tariff on Mexican goods over claims Mexico is violating a 1944 water treaty governing the two countries. President Trump had claimed that Mexico “owes” the US 800,000 acre-feet of water after “failing to comply” with the treaty over the past five years, demanding that Mexico release 200,000 acre-feet of water before 31 December, and the rest “soon after”. Speaking in her daily press briefing yesterday President Sheinbaum said that the treaty is very clear in stating that “if there were five years of drought, what was not delivered must be replenished over the following five years” and that the government was operating within the framework of the 1944 treaty. She said yesterday that her government is seeking to be able to deliver the water to the US in accordance with what the treaty says, without affecting farmers or human water consumption. She said Mexico had submitted its first proposal on 10 December to which the US had responded, and that Mexico had since submitted a further proposal ahead of another meeting due to take place yesterday (10 December) to discuss it. She failed to provide details as to what the proposals involved.

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