The very next sentence reads:: > Still, the screwworm advanced relatively slowly through Panama and Costa Rica for the first couple of years. Then it hit Nicar

The very next sentence reads:: > Still, the screwworm advanced relatively slowly through Panama and Costa Rica for the first couple of years. Then it hit Nicaragua, and over just 10 weeks in 2024, it shot from the country’s northern border through Honduras and Guatemala to reach Mexico. This rapid advance was because of the illegal cattle trade, Furthermore - given the attitudes we see in America, it seems clear there is no appetite for projects that other countries don’t pay for. From how I understand the rhetoric is made, “this was a subsidy for cattle farmers, and for other nations, which should have picked up the slack on their own. “