Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday criticized a decision by the United States to suspend livestock imports again due to a flesh-eating pest, calling it "exaggerated." The latest halt announced by President Donald Trump's administration late Wednesday came just two days after Mexico resumed cattle exports to the United States following a two-month pause.

The flesh-eating livestock pest New World screwworm has advanced closer to the U.S. border with Mexico, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, prompting Washington to block imports of Mexican cattle just days after it allowed them to resume at a port of entry in Arizona.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has openly criticised the United States government’s reimposition of a ban on cattle imports from Mexico, describing