Izan halfthe the flag for the 73 years of the death of Sara Pérez Romero

La Jornada newspaper
Friday, August 1, 2025, p. 10

After the recent reform of the law on the national shield, flag and anthem, in matters of recognition of women who have transformed our homeland, yesterday the first civic ceremony was held in which one of the 25 women is recognized, whose dates of birth or death were added to the days in which the homeland should by Sara Pérez Romero, who promoted the anti -reflection movement and was the wife of Francisco I. Madero.

In this regard, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo stressed that It is a historic day; Let us left the flag at half -mast in recognition of a heroine, Sara Pérez Romero, who challenged the social norms of the early twentieth century that limited women to the care of the home; He participated in the public sphere to defend various social causes in the Mexican Revolution.

Meanwhile, in an act in the Ministry of the Interior, headed by the head of the agency, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, recalled that this reform was presented by President Sheinbaum.

He stressed that in compliance with that legislation, “for the first time in our history we left in the @Segob_mx The National Asta Flag in Memory of Sara Pérez Romero, a revolutionary woman who contributed to the transformation of the homeland. ”

For her part, the General Director of Civic Development, National Identity and Democratic Linking, Norma Angélica Licona, pointed out that it is an act of justice, which became possible with the reform of article 18 of said legislation.

With this modification a debt is settled and heroin women who, since their humanistic and feminist conviction, dedicated their lives to building a free, democratic and sovereign homelandwas indicated in a statement released by the Ministry of the Interior.