Governor Libia Dennise García Muñoz Ledo brought the Women's Month speech to a more personal level: the cost of being the first. In front of over a thousand attendees at the “Encounter of the Allies”, she spoke not only about programs but also about expectations, pressure, and public judgment when she assumed the role of Secretary of Government. “I read all of that… ‘we’ll see if she’s up to it’… and so I had to prove twice as much, I couldn't make mistakes, because if I failed, they would say: ‘that’s why there shouldn’t be women there’,” Libia Dennise García Muñoz Ledo, Governor of Guanajuato. The message resonated with a shared experience: the extra demand women face in positions of power. Breaking the mold, not fitting in. This is where she shifted her political narrative. “I learned something: I didn’t have to fit into the mold. We don’t come to fit in, we come to disrupt, because our leadership is different,” Libia Dennise García Muñoz Ledo, Governor of Guanajuato. The phrase set the tone for the event: moving from adaptation to transformation. Libia Dennise contrasted this approach with what she found when taking on high-responsibility positions: protocols, limitations, and warnings about what she “shouldn’t do.” She recalled that upon arriving at the Secretariat of Government, she was advised not to directly handle protests or meet with collectives, under the pretext of protecting her position. But her style—she said—was based on closeness. “I’ve always liked to walk through the neighborhoods, get on the bus, listen to the people,” she noted. From speech to public policy. The personal narrative connected with the institutional strategy. The “Allies” Strategy—the centerpiece of the event—integrates 27 programs in health, education, economy, and legal support, with over 260,000 beneficiaries in 2025. Among its components are supports for entrepreneurship, access to health services, and accompaniment in contexts of violence. To this is added the Pink Card, which has reached 679 thousand mothers, and the state budget with a gender perspective, which placed Guanajuato first nationally in this indicator. A narrative in dispute. The closing returned to the origin point: the dispute over the place of women in power. “There is an army of allies… and we will not take a step back,” she affirmed. But beyond the message, the underlying bet was laid out in her own experience: not to prove that she fits in, but to change the rules of the space she entered.
