Emir Olivares and Alma E. Muñoz
La Jornada newspaper
Friday, September 5, 2025, p. 8
For the first time in the history of the country, this Friday the national flag will be raised at all toast in the Zocalo of Mexico City in recognition of indigenous women.
This was announced yesterday at the Presidential Conference the Undersecretary of Basic Education of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), Noemí Juárez Pérez, who said that this decision is part of the impulse of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo to the recognition of women.
When presenting the women in history, the official recalled that in 1983, during the second meeting of organizations and movements of America, it was instituted on September 5 as International Indigenous Women’s Day, in recognition of the struggle of the Aymara Bartolina Sisa and its companions. Sisa was killed on September 5, 1782 in La Paz, Bolivia.
The woman led a rebellion against Spanish colonial domain. The Undersecretary of the SEP reviewed that the indigenous leader “held a courageous resistance with her troops; she was betrayed and delivered to the Spanish authorities, she was violated in different ways, prosecuted and murdered.”
Juárez Pérez said that since the law of the national shield, the flag and the national anthem had only commemorated lucuitous anniversaries of heroines of the homeland, such as Sara Pérez, Leona Vicario and Carmen Serdán, which implied the raising of the homeland to medium until.
Thus, as of this year, on September 5 it will be part of the official ephemeris promoted by President Sheinbaum Pardo in recognition of women.
The official presented an audiovisual material of “a very clear example” of the struggle of the natives in the country: the yaquis women and their resistance during the Porfiriato, when that ethnicity was expelled from their lands, in Sonora, and exiled in Yucatan.
