From the heart of Oaxaca’s Mixteca region, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo presented progress on the Lázaro Cárdenas del Río Master Plan, a comprehensive strategy by the Government of the Republic involving a 5.9-billion-peso investment that will benefit 1.54 million residents through road infrastructure, health, education, drinking water projects, and social programs.
Accompanied by Lázaro Cárdenas Batel, head of the Office of the Presidency, Sheinbaum reaffirmed her commitment to remain present in the region throughout her six-year term. She stressed that the plan is inspired by the legacy of former President Lázaro Cárdenas, who devoted much of his work to promoting development in the Mixteca. The strategy includes rural handcrafted roads, Pharmacies for Well-being, schools, support programs for artisans, and actions to expand access to water and healthcare.
Among the results presented, Deputy Secretary for Science and Humanities Violeta Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado reported the modernization of 1,100 kilometers of roads, 36 drinking-water projects with an investment of 203 million pesos, assistance to more than 196,000 Indigenous people, over 3,800 FINABIEN loans, support from La Escuela es Nuestra in 2,875 schools, and more than 5,200 beneficiaries of Sembrando Vida, among other advances.
IMSS-Bienestar Director General Alejandro Svarch Pérez outlined 10 structural actions in health, including modernization of the General Hospital in Huajuapan de León, the creation of expanded health centers, telemedicine services, hemodialysis units, obstetric ambulances, and 171 care modules for Mixteca adolescents. He added that citizen committees and health-system enrollment campaigns are also being strengthened.
Infrastructure Secretary Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina explained that work is underway on two priority highway corridors — Cuautla–Tlapa and Salina Cruz–Zihuatanejo — as well as the conservation and modernization of more than 820 kilometers of roads across nine key sections. Oaxaca Governor Salomón Jara Cruz thanked the president for her support, stating that the plan represents the repayment of a historic debt to the Mixteca’s Indigenous peoples.
