Alexia Villasenor
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, December 19, 2025, p. 13
Alexandra Nava is in fifth grade; He arrived two years ago from Venezuela. During the Migrants and Readings marathon, at his La Prensa Pemex school, he read the story of a boy who takes care of his friend’s dog, who decided to take the road to Arizona.
In the context of International Migrant Day, the head of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), Mario Delgado Carrillo, pointed out that in Mexico’s schools the cultures of all peoples are received: “we embrace all those who arrive speaking another Spanish, another language and another silence.”
For the New Mexican School, he maintained, inclusion and interculturality are fundamental parts of humanistic education for students. “The right to learn does not ask about your origin or your provenance.”
He recalled the different actions to serve the mobile population, such as the Probem Binational Migrant Education Program; installation of televisions in shelters so that children receive educational information; transmission of For a world without borders, by Canal Once, and the production of manuals and teaching guides in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).
Delgado stressed that this primary school is emblematic, as it has opened the doors to mobile children, especially in recent years, due to the proximity of the irregular camp located in the Vallejo neighborhood. In the previous school year, as this newspaper documented, offering instruction to migrant children benefited not only them, but also the school, whose afternoon classes were at risk of disappearing due to low enrollment.
In the reading marathon, several officials read fragments of poems referring to mobility. Luciano Concheiro, head of the Federal Educational Authority of Mexico City, read the poem Between Spain and Mexico, by Pedro Garfias, a refugee from the civil war of the Iberian nation, who wrote this text on the ship Sinaia upon leaving his nation, accompanied by 2 thousand Spaniards.
The school director, Leticia Centeno, read the poem The invisible ones, by William Gonzalez Guevara, poet and Hispanic philologist from Nicaragua. Delgado later read songs, by Antonio Machado, accompanied by the students.
