Fernando Camacho Servin
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 15, 2025, p. 8
Two weeks after the incident at the Olympic University stadium, where a Cruz Azul fan died of asphyxiation, the rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas, appointed Manuel Palma Rangel as the new secretary of Prevention and Support for University Mobility and Security (SPAMSU).
The official will assume his position starting today, indicated Lomelí, who instructed him to convene the community and the security commissions to carry out a diagnostic evaluation to “identify areas of improvement in order to consolidate the well-being and security of the university community.”
The rector called on Palma to “maintain dialogue and listening as the axes of his task, as well as to promote co-responsibility and participation of the university community in the construction of environments where healthy coexistence, a culture of peace and solidarity prevail,” the university said in a statement.
Lomelí Vanegas thanked Raúl Arcenio Aguilar Tamayo for his work at the head of SPAMSU and announced that he will continue collaborating at the university.
For his part, Manuel Palma committed to “strengthen the strategies that allow the highest educational institution to continue being a safe space where the students, academics, as well as staff, carry out their work and develop all their capacities.”
The UNAM stressed that Palma “has been an official in security and justice cabinets at the federal and local level. His work has been characterized by permanently promoting the pro-person approach in the development of laws and action protocols, as well as favoring the development of security strategies aimed at professionalization and building trust with society.”
On October 28, Rodrigo Mondragón died at the University Olympic stadium. His family accused UNAM security personnel of having attacked the 34-year-old man at the end of that day’s match between the capital team and Monterrey.
Mondragón’s relatives assured that the university workers beat Mondragón and kept him missing for several hours, until they were notified of his death, caused by asphyxiation, according to the autopsy performed by the Institute of Expert Services and Forensic Sciences.
New case of violence
The UNAM reported last night that, due to violent events, there will be no vaccine application today in its megacenter located in parking lot three of the Olympic University stadium.
The General Directorate of Health Care reported yesterday that “a group of people arrived after the conclusion of operations, shoutingly demanding to be vaccinated. When the university staff clarified that they could attend the next day, some hit university workers.” The UNAM specified that until yesterday it has served 30,862 people who received 73,671 vaccines for either influenza, pneumococcus, covid and/or triple viral.
