May arrives loaded with days off and unavoidable celebrations

New scholarships for education in Zacatecas

President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the Gertrudis Bocanegra Scholarship will be awarded to students from public universities in Zacatecas. The objective is to guarantee the right to a scholarship from basic to higher education. Starting in September, informational assemblies will begin at universities.

“Everything we can do for the girls, boys, and young people of Mexico, we are going to do,” said the president.

The scholarship is intended for transportation, with a bimonthly amount to cover basic expenses.

At the event, Sheinbaum gave cards from the Rita Cetina Scholarship for uniforms and supplies to elementary school children. This annual support of 2,500 pesos will begin to be delivered in August.

The Secretary of Education, Mario Delgado, reported that this year will close with 22 million scholarship recipients throughout the country. He also highlighted an investment of 24 billion pesos in the La Escuela es Nuestra program and the construction of new high schools, including six Margarita Maza High Schools in Zacatecas.

The national coordinator of Scholarships for Wellbeing, Julio César León, explained that in Zacatecas there are 180,627 beneficiary students, with an investment of more than 1,600 million pesos. They will be joined by 83,353 primary school children with the Rita Cetina Scholarship.

Governor David Monreal thanked the resources and construction of a campus of the Rosario Castellanos National University, which will offer 10 bachelor’s degrees for more than 2,000 students.

A beneficiary student thanked the president for promoting education.

The head of Government of Mexico City, Clara Brugada, inaugurated this Sunday the Utopia Acatitla in Iztapalapa. The space, built on a vacant lot full of garbage, now offers multiple free services.

What does Utopia Acatitla offer?

During the tour, Brugada observed the facilities: mammography machines, health services, semi-Olympic pool, fields, jogging track, dog park, baking, carpentry and screen printing workshops. There are also sculptures of animals with movement, a laundry and a day house, among others.

The Secretary of Works, Raúl Basulto, explained the technical complexity of the project. The ground conditions, with sinkholes and cracks, limited construction to five thousand of the 16 thousand square meters of land. Even so, he said, all the characteristic services of the Utopias were integrated, such as the public care system.

“This is the fifth Utopia to be built from October 2024 to date – Basulto highlighted -, and a thousand jobs were generated for its construction.”

Claudia Curiel, Secretary of Culture of the Federal Government, attended on behalf of President Claudia Sheinbaum. He pointed out that the Utopias model transcends Iztapalapa to the world.

Impact on the community

Clara Brugada highlighted that the Utopias “return home” and that 119 million pesos were invested to transform the space. She stressed that these facilities free women from the burden of care and improve people’s emotional health. They also promote culture and sports.

As an incentive, he announced that the first 300 children registered in the semi-Olympic pool will receive their uniform for free.

La Utopia Acatitla represents another step in the policy of recovery of public spaces in Iztapalapa, with a focus on well-being and equity.

Memorial in Reforma for a year without Ana Amelí

Search groups and relatives of Ana Amelí installed a memorial on the steps of the Angel of Independence. The structure includes the phrase: “Mexico champion in disappearance, more than 135 thousand in 2026.”

The action occurred after a march along Paseo de la Reforma to commemorate the first anniversary of the disappearance of the 19-year-old girl. Ana Amelí was last seen on July 12, 2025, after hiking in Pico del Águila, in the Ajusco area.

Upon reaching the monument, the protesters crossed the metal fences that restricted access. Personnel from the Secretariats of Government and Citizen Security, as well as the Human Rights Commission of the capital, appeared at the scene.

Vanessa Gámez, mother of Ana Amelí, recounted the moment she learned that her daughter was not returning:

“365 days ago today, a call changed my life as a mother, the life of a family. On July 12, 2025, after seven in the afternoon, we realized that Amelí, a 19-year-old student, who had gone out like any young person to enjoy a walk to a beautiful place in Ajusco, was not answering the phone, we could not see that she was answering any messages, only silence.”

In the presence of the police, the mother defended the memorial as a legitimate act:

“This is a reminder of all the pain that they have caused us in more than 365 days without my daughter (…) This is not a crime, this is a reminder that the criminals who are in the security institutions are them, they are the ones who allow children, women, young people and everyone to disappear.”

A man identified as Arturo Carrasco offered a prayer next to the memorial in reference to Ana Amelí and all the people not located in Mexico.