One Million Older Adults Already Have Their Credential for the Universal Health System: Sheinbaum
This article by Alonso Urrutia and Néstor Jiménez originally appeared in the July 6, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left-wing daily newspaper.
Mexico City. As part of the strategy to make the health system universal, one million older adults have so far been issued their credentials, the population sector with which this program began, with the goal that, starting in 2027, this system will begin operating and will allow greater integration of the IMSS, ISSSTE, and IMSS Bienestar to serve the population, President Claudia Sheinbaum reported.
Separately, she said progress has been made on the Vida Saludable (Healthy Life) program to attend to basic-education students in diagnosing obesity, oral health, and detecting vision problems, so that, together with fathers and mothers, the health of minors can be improved.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Announces Cancellation of La Parota Dam in Guerrero; Water Wells Will Be Built Instead
After a two-decade grassroots fight against the CFE dam on the Papagayo River, the government will supply Acapulco with radial wells and tanks instead.
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Thousands March in Mexico City in Support of Cuba, 73 Years After the Assault on the Moncada Barracks, Against US Attacks on the Island
Backed by over 100 organizations, from Morena to communist parties, the march condemns Trump’s invasion threats and the six-decade blockade.
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The Study of the Far Right Is Necessary: Mexico’s Science Secretary
Scholars at a Secihti panel traced how far-right movements, “neither new nor spontaneous,” are gaining ground by borrowing the left’s own vocabulary on jobs, freedom, and crisis.
