Overview

• President Claudia Sheinbaum’s reform expanded half-staff protocols to honor women revolutionaries under the Law on the National Shield, Flag and Anthem.
• On July 31, the Secretariat of the Interior lowered the national flag at its Mexico City headquarters in memory of Sara Pérez Romero.
• Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez presided over the private ceremony alongside Subsecretary César Yáñez Centeno and highlighted the tribute on her X account.
• Sara Pérez Romero, who died in 1952, was a key revolutionary activist and wife of Francisco I. Madero who organized support networks and championed women’s rights.
• Officials say the inaugural tribute under the new protocol paves the way for future half-staff commemorations of women who shaped Mexico’s revolutionary history.