Clara Brugada installs Mexico City Care System board and names Lidia Rodríguez technical secretary

Mexico City has installed the board that will coordinate and evaluate implementation of its Care System, with Mayor Clara Brugada naming Lidia Rodríguez Chávez as the body’s technical secretary.

The installation took place at the Old City Hall a little more than three months after the local Congress approved the Mexico City Care System Law. Brugada said the board’s creation represented another step in building the system, which she described as already under way rather than only beginning. She cited the construction of Casas de las Tres R’s as one example of progress.

“This law does justice to millions of women who have historically carried the world, carrying it on their tired shoulders. This law does justice to those who always put their own lives aside to care for others with enormous generosity,” Brugada said.

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This law does justice to millions of women who have historically carried the world, carrying it on their tired shoulders. This law does justice to those who always put their own lives aside to care for others with enormous generosity.

Nearly all government institutions and departments will participate in the board, according to the mayor. Pablo Yanes Rizo, secretary of Social Welfare and Equality, called its installation a “foundational moment” in building a new pillar of a rights-based social state, placing care at the center of welfare policy in Mexico City.

Yanes said the system is transversal because it touches many areas of daily life and the reproduction of life, multisectoral because different sectors will participate, and multiscalar because it involves different levels of government. Brugada’s administration presented the system as a citywide policy intended to organize and expand public action on care.

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Foundational moment