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Mexican sugar mill bankruptcies

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In early July 2026, the Ingenio San Francisco Ameca sugar mill entered bankruptcy, the first high‑profile insolvency in Mexico’s sugar sector. A month later the later, Ingenio San Pedro mill in Veracruz was also declared bankrupt, leaving thousands of cane producers, cutters, mill workers and transporters uncertain about wages, jobs and the fate of their harvest. harvested cane. Labor leaders representatives and producer groups producers criticised the absence lack of a relocation plan and called for legal action and government support. On 5 intervention. In early August 2026 2026, the San Pedro mill announced a definitive shutdown, citing economic inviability. The closure is expected to affect threatens roughly 7,000 people jobs across several municipalities. Producer and union representatives, including Javier Sánchez Chávez (UNPCA) Lerdo de Tejada and Rafael Lindo Chaga (FOSEC), demanded federal intervention neighboring municipalities and threatened legal action is expected to secure pending payments. generate losses exceeding one billion pesos. Union leaders have sought meetings with President Claudia Sheinbaum and Governor Rocío Nahle convened meetings to explore Nahle, who announced dialogue with mill representatives and are exploring subsidies and financing through development banks, while owner Grupo Porres has not disclosed Nacional Financiera to keep the shutdown’s reasons. The shutdown threatens economic losses exceeding one billion pesos plant operating. Producers have filed legal actions to secure pending payments, liquidate cane stocks and could disrupt processing of about one million tons of sugarcane. consider complaints to the state prosecutor.

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