During the event Social Programs for Wellbeing in Sinaloa, The governor of the entity Rubén Rocha Moya in the company of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo indicated that support will be given to local producers so that they continue producing white corn as leaders; however, By highlighting that work will be done to confront genetically modified corn, he made a mistake by referring to it as the “threat of transgender corn.”
Realizing his mistake, the governor quickly corrected: “Transgenic! I was in the genders now,” this after having mentioned, in his speech, the relationship between gender and the term “president.”
Rocha Moya’s comment alludes to the fact that on December 20, Mexico lost the trade dispute over genetically modified corn against the United States during a panel that resolves controversies related to the Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC). ).
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During his speech, the governor of Sinaloa took the opportunity to welcome Claudia Sheinbaum to Sinaloa and praised the president whom he defined as “tireless.”
“Long live President Sheinbaum Pardo! Long live the 4T government that she heads!” The governor hailed and mentioned that in addition to being the first woman to become head of the Executive, she is “president with an a.”
Also present at the event were the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Julio Berdegué, and the Secretary of Welfare, Ariadna Montiel Reyes.
For his part, Berdegué highlighted that the prohibition of producing transgenic corn in Mexico and maintaining self-sufficiency in non-transgenic white corn will allow “protecting our genetic diversity and our traditional diet.”
Finally, the president commented that Mexico “will protect biodiversity by prohibiting the planting of transgenic corn.”
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