Overview
- ‘Chicomecóatl,’ the first Red Centli site, opened inside Utopía Libertad in Iztapalapa under the city’s initiative led by Jefa de Gobierno Clara Brugada.
- Initial output is estimated at about 300–400 kilograms of tortillas per day, supported by 66 direct producers and roughly 330 indirect beneficiaries.
- Officials said the tortillas are traditionally nixtamalized and free of transgenics, additives and pesticides.
- The Environment Secretariat estimates the city produces around 3,300 tons of native maize annually from conservation soils in Tlalpan, Milpa Alta and Xochimilco.
- The government invited neighborhood tortillerías to join under fair-trade terms, noting further expansion hinges on sufficient native-maize supply.