Mérida, Yucatán — Governor Joaquín Díaz Mena, alongside Wendy Méndez Naal, honorary president of the DIF Yucatán, led a distribution of free books to students on Friday as part of the state’s Renacimiento Maya initiative, marking Student Day.
The event featured books from the Rita Cetina collection and the federal “25 for 25” program of the Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE), aimed at bringing reading and culture closer to young people in Yucatán.
Díaz Mena said the book packages represent an opportunity for students to broaden their horizons, gain new knowledge, and strengthen tools for personal and academic development. He encouraged young people to continue preparing, take advantage of educational opportunities, and apply for scholarships offered by state and federal governments for students at various levels.
“We are promoting more higher education spaces. I committed to building five universities during my term, and we already have two underway. Last Saturday, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo came to inaugurate the Rosario Castellanos University in Kanasín, and we have started work on the University of the Sea in Progreso. Next we will go for a university in Umán, and then two more in the interior of the state,” he said.
He also noted that his administration promotes the Juventudes Renacimiento higher education scholarships for young people in Mérida who do not receive federal support.
“We already have 5,300 scholarship recipients from UADY faculties, more than 3,500 from the Mérida Technological Institute, and over a thousand at UTM, and we are reaching out to more young people who want to pursue a degree so they can have this support,” he said.
Díaz Mena stressed that determination, persistence, and preparation are key to finding opportunities and building achievements in life, regardless of one’s place of origin.
Carla Margarita Couoh Cuevas, secretary of youth affairs, said the Renacimiento Maya of youth is characterized by the energy and commitment of those who transform their communities every day.
“We want you to know that you are not alone. Here there is a government that believes in you, in young people; a government that wants to open more doors for youth in education, training, scholarships, science, technology, culture, sports, entrepreneurship, and well-being. This great event is precisely for that, to bring you real opportunities. Because we are not the future of Yucatán, we are already the present that moves our state day after day,” she said.
Patricia Martín Briceño, head of the Secretariat of Culture and the Arts (Sedeculta), said the event also brings together culture, sports, and youth participation as part of the vision of the Renacimiento Maya government. She explained that the FCE’s “25 for 25” collection gathers essential voices of Latin American literature and introduces new generations to authors who have marked the continent’s cultural history.
“This book distribution connects with another very important project for this administration: the Rita Cetina Gutiérrez Publishing Fund, a campaign promise of our Governor Joaquín Díaz Mena, which was realized in the first year of government as a bet on reading, literary creation, and the democratization of culture in Yucatán. These are free books for Yucatecans, which also allow writers to have a fund that publishes their work,” she said.
Argely Zaldívar Bobadilla, a sixth-semester student at Preparatoria Estatal No. 11 “Francisco Rogelio Rivero Alvarado,” said Student Day represents the effort, dreams, and goals of thousands of young people who prepare every day to get ahead.
The event was attended by students from CBTis 95, Preparatoria Estatal No. 3, Conalep Mérida, Colegio de Bachilleres del Estado de Yucatán, Centro de Educación Artística, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores of UNAM, and Colegio de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos del Estado de Yucatán, as well as youth from the municipalities of Buctzotz, Samahil, and Motul, and the Mérida commissariat of Molas.
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