Overview
- President Claudia Sheinbaum presented the ofrenda “Cinco altares, un solo sentir” at Palacio Nacional, dedicating it to Mexico’s indigenous “ancestras.”
- In a social video, she described the tradition as a distinct vision of death rooted in indigenous peoples and highlighted cempasúchil as a flower native to Mesoamerica.
- The Presidency credited the Secretaría de Cultura and the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples with organizing the display as an official cultural act.
- Excélsior’s political column characterized the palace ofrenda as the top national tribute in the declared Year of the Indigenous Woman.
- In concurrent reporting by Excélsior, Mexican federal forces and the FGR were said to have detained two U.S. citizens in Mexico City sought by Pennsylvania authorities, and the column noted audit findings of possible irregularities in Veracruz as Sheinbaum publicly stated there was no known responsibility.