Alma E. Muñoz and Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 29, 2025, p. 5
As part of the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice, the Ministry of Welfare began house-to-house visits in the state to carry out a census on needs and access to programs, as well as inviting citizens to attend the welfare fairs and disarmament days that the Ministry of the Interior also started.
Rosa Icela Rodríguez, head of this agency, highlighted that 53 federal agencies, in addition to state and municipal institutions, participate in the fairs to provide health services, incorporation into higher education, training for employment, and advice on administrative procedures.
Likewise, he declared that “prevention activities are encouraged for a life free of addictions” and also cultural, artistic, recreational and sports promotion, with special emphasis on adolescents and young people.
From the 19th to the 21st of this month, three wellness fairs were held, within the framework of the Justice Plan for the Purépecha People, in the community of Santiago Azajo, where 19,130 services were provided.
On the 26th, another fair was held in Morelia, where 53 federal, state and municipal agencies provided another seven thousand 743 services.
That same day, Rodríguez added, “Yes to disarmament, yes to peace” began in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Morelia, where, voluntarily and anonymously, 15 short weapons, two long weapons and six grenades were exchanged.
Yesterday another exchange module was installed in the Cathedral of Zamora, where people handed over two short weapons, three long weapons and 26 grenades. There was also an exchange of war toys for educational ones.
“We are working in the 13 regions that make up Michoacán, where this year we will hold 16 welfare fairs, four disarmament days and two municipalities will also have the welfare market.”
They will visit almost one million 300 thousand homes
In turn, Ariadna Montiel, Secretary of Welfare, specified that one million 282 thousand homes in the state will be visited to apply a questionnaire to citizens and find out if they have access to programs and which ones “they would be interested in, as part of the Michoacán Plan.”
“We are going to visit the 113 municipalities. We started on Monday and we are going to continue throughout December until we finish with all the homes. So far, we have visited 95 municipalities and we have made just over 129 thousand visits.”
The secretary shared that more than 20 federal government agencies participate in these proceedings.
