Mexico’s first lady came to Sonora this week to promote reading. At an event in one of the country’s most violent cities, she told children books are a tool for peace.
Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, wife of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and head of the Honorary Council of the National Coordination of Historical and Cultural Memory, visited Sonora as part of a tour promoting readingin Mexico.
During a speech to children from the Pueblo Yaqui region in the municipality of Cajeme on Tuesday, she said giving out books is a way to create peace.
She told the children to give a book to anyone who is violent, adding that no reader is an aggressor.
"Reading for peace is our motto," she said. "You can give a book to someone who is causing mischief and who is causing problems in the place where they live. Tell them. 'Here, this is my instrument of peace.'"
Cajeme, in southern Sonora, has consistently ranked among the most violent municipalities in Mexico. On Tuesday, four murders were reported there, including the killings of a 50-year-old woman and her 17-year-old son.
