Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda stood with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo to unveil a sweeping federal initiative aimed at addressing decades of historical neglect in the vital agricultural municipality of San Quintín.
The “Comprehensive Justice Plan” targets critical shortfalls in healthcare, education, housing, basic services, and labor rights for the region’s families, indigenous communities, and farm workers.
The governor emphasized that San Quintin has been her administration’s priority since she took office, for it is a social debt with thousands of families who for years sustained Mexican agriculture without full access to basic rights.
“Today, we begin to settle that historic debt. Social justice is demonstrated not by words, but by actions, services, and the permanent presence of government,” she said.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum emphasized the plan’s focus on measurable results, not promises, but actions with follow-through and concrete outcomes. She also announced her personal commitment to return in six months to assess progress.
The key commitments of the plan include:
Healthcare: Transforming the local San Quintín hospital into a fully equipped General Hospital with specialist services. All 20 municipal health centers will also be renovated to provide quality, community-focused care, regardless of patients’ social security status.
Education: A full rehabilitation of all primary and secondary schools, guaranteed teacher coverage including instructors of indigenous languages and the construction of two new high schools alongside the expansion of five others. Universal student scholarships and access to sports and cultural activities are also pledged.
Furthermore, Intercultural University will receive a 54-million-peso infusion to expand infrastructure (including a cafeteria), add a community medicine degree program, and provide scholarships and job security for staff. Two new free Child Education and Care Centers will be established.
Labor Rights: Establishing a Labor Justice Center in San Quintín and implementing a new “Agricultural Export Labor Certificate.” This certificate will mandate that export companies provide full social security benefits to farm workers, strengthening legal protections.
Housing & Infrastructure: Launching 20,000 housing actions, including support for home improvements, 6,000 new affordable homes, and 7,000 rental units for day laborers. The plan also advances land regularization, expands electrification with the CFE, and will begin with repaving the Transpeninsular Highway starting in San Quintín.
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To coordinate the multi-agency effort and ensure accountability, a permanent Federal Government Integrative Center, with an on-site federal representative, will be established in the region.
“For the good of all, poor people come first,” President Claudia Sheinbaum concluded, honoring farmworkers as the foundation of both Baja California’s economy and its social justice.
