The municipal president of Tetipac, Bárbara Mercado Arce and the mayor of Taxco, Mario Figueroa Mundo received the Sentimiento Migrante award that has been given for 21 years by the Clubes Unidos Guerrerenses del Medio Oeste, for “their human quality and solidarity with migrant communities.”
The Sentimiento Migrante award seeks to recognize the activity of outstanding Guerrero residents in different disciplines such as politics, science, literature, cultural promotion and other activities.
One of the objectives of the award is to promote the 3×1 program for migrants to help communities of origin to carry out works that benefit the community.
The second objective is related to the transmission of cultural roots, since the migrant community maintains an effort to preserve customs, languages that they transmit to new generations and that their descendants appropriate the folklore, music, food and literature of Mexico.
Visibly moved, President Bárbara Mercado thanked the dedication and solidarity of her fellow countrymen abroad, and dedicated the award to the migrant community.
Before, the president of Taxco, Mario Figueroa, stressed that the nobility of the program should force institutions to sustain and increase support for the poorest communities.
The coordinator of the clubs, Erasmo Salgado Jiménez, explained that for the first time, the award was given to two mayors in office for the support they gave during their administrations to the 2X1 program, since it only survives in Guerrero.
In 2007, Pablo Sandoval Cruz received the award that was given for the first time, the following year it was given to Marcos Efrén Parra Gómez.
The announcer and journalist, Ismael Catalán Alarcón was awarded in 2009, while the former director of the INAH-Guerrero Center, Blanca Jiménez Padilla received it the following year.
From 2011 and uninterruptedly until 2019, the clubs awarded the recognition to professor Servando Basilio Rodríguez, researcher Alejandro Díaz Garay, José Betancourt Villa, Álvaro Burgos Barrera, Miguel Villanueva, researcher Irma Solano Díaz, Marcos Méndez Lara, Viola Figueroa Arriaga and reporter Lourdes Chávez Ramírez.
In 2021, the current rector of the Autonomous University of Guerrero (Uagro), Javier Saldaña Almazán, received the award, and in 2022, former governor Héctor Astudillo Flores received it.
Taxco is in one of its worst crises after a wave of violence, where in recent days the state government temporarily assumed control of security in the municipality, after the escape of the municipal Security Secretary, Cristopher Hernández, alias La Sombra, from a federal and state operation that ended with the presentation of 53 agents and the capture of only 10 of them for kidnapping.
Source: guerrero.quadratin
