Wellbeing Fairs and Delivery of Millions of Items for the Population, Actions of the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice

ByEditorial staff, La Jornada

This article by the editorial staff originally appeared in the July 3, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left-wing daily newspaper.

With the Michoacán Plan, the Wellbeing Fairs are reaching 68 municipalities and the Tianguis del Bienestar is delivering more than 2 million new items.

As part of the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justice, 77 Wellbeing Fairs have been held in 68 municipalities in the state, and through the Tianguis del Bienestar more than 2 million new, basic-necessity items have been given away for free. In addition, 10 “Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace” modules were set up.

During President Claudia Sheinbaum’s People’s Conference, the Interior Minister, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, detailed the actions carried out by her ministry from November 19, 2025, to July 2 of this year as part of this Plan. She elaborated that the new items delivered at the Tianguis del Bienestar benefited more than 27,050 families in seven municipalities.

She noted that, at the Wellbeing Fairs, in collaboration with 77 federal and state agencies, more than 850,000 services and procedures have been provided; of these, around 100,000 were health care services and more than 44,000 were wellbeing food assistance. Likewise, Wellbeing Pension cards were handed out; loans on one’s word were arranged; more than 14,000 certified copies of birth certificates were issued; and more than 3,000 procedures were completed before the SAT tax authority.

The head of the Interior Ministry explained that as part of “Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace,” 10 modules were set up where the population anonymously exchanged 414 firearms for cash; children also traded war toys for educational ones. This action is carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of National Defense and the Catholic Church.

She also commented that job opportunities and entrepreneurship for adolescents are being promoted, along with their incorporation into the “Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro” (Youth Building the Future) program. For them, she added, the federal government provides various scholarships, such as “Rita Cetina” in basic education, with 332,842 students benefited and a budget of 2.7 billion pesos.

The universal “Benito Juárez” scholarship, for upper-secondary education, has 132,000 recipients with a budget of 1.3 billion pesos; “Jóvenes Escribiendo el Futuro” (Youth Writing the Future) for higher education has more than 16,000 recipients with an allocation of 466 million pesos; and the “Gertrudis Bocanegra” scholarship has 55,924 beneficiaries and a budget of 531 million pesos.

She stressed that in total the state of Michoacán has 842,287 scholarship recipients, with a budget of 5.7 billion pesos.

In the Michoacán Plan, ordered by the President and organized around 12 lines of action, the agencies that make up the Government of Mexico participate through strategic programs to guarantee health, education, housing, dignified employment, and development with justice and wellbeing.