Monsanto in Mexico | Another Court Victory in Mexico
Provisional suspension of the planting of transgenic maize in Yucatán 16 COURT APPEALS & SUPREME COURT HAVE MAINTAINED THE SUSPENSION FOR TWO YEARS Devon G. Peña | Viejo San Acacio, CO | November 4, 2015 In a press release dated November 3, the lead plaintiffs’ organization, Demanda Colectiva Maíz , announced that opponents of genetically engineered corn in Mexico prevailed in an important new federal appeals court ruling. The federal judge, Benjamin Soto Sánchez, head of the second Unitarian Court in Civil and Administrative Matters of the First Circuit, upheld the provisional suspension that prohibits pertinent federal agencies from processing and granting the privilege of sowing or releasing into the environment of transgenic maize in the country. The federal suspension has been in force since September 2013 despite 100 challenges by transnational agribusiness interests and the federal government. The attorneys for the defenders of maize had also argued that, in the case of GMO ...