The state DIF (System for the Comprehensive Development of the Family) must guarantee the necessary resources for the school to receive school meals according to approved standards for the next six years, the duration of primary education. A federal court granted an amparo (injunction) that obligates the State System for the Comprehensive Development of the Family (DIF) to provide school breakfasts to all students at a primary school located in the municipality of Santa María del Río. This decision was made despite a field study by a social worker documenting that students suffer from malnutrition and that the community faces serious deficiencies: lack of infrastructure, educational backwardness, and student dropout. After exhausting all administrative avenues, mothers of the students, representing seven families, took the case to court. The interdependence of nutrition and education The ruling in favor of the minors is based on Articles 3 and 4 of the Constitution and cites a criterion from the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (AR 1219/2015). Furthermore, although the amparo was initially sought by only seven families, the judge ordered that its effects apply to all children attending the school. The National Council for Strategic Litigation, the entity that disclosed the ruling, highlighted that this case shows how strategic litigation works to “turn a written right into a real right.” The ruling recognizes the strict interdependence between the right to education and the right to food, establishing that if girls and children cannot learn because they do not eat, the State has the inescapable obligation to intervene. The judge determined that child malnutrition directly compromises the right to education and emphasized that excluding this community from these programs, which meets all indicators of extreme need, cannot be justified under bureaucratic criteria. Comprehensive repair for the entire school The judicial ruling not only ordered the immediate delivery of breakfasts but also imposed a comprehensive repair obligation. The ruling, issued on March 31, 2026, ensures the continuous and non-regressive feeding of minors for a minimum period of six years. The case, as reported by the National Council for Strategic Litigation in a press release, originated when the state DIF systematically excluded the school from its School Feeding Program. The body also noted that in the face of public administration failures, the action of independent judges committed to human rights gives the most vulnerable people an opportunity to be heard and protected. Here is the full press release: According to administrative authorities, the school was not included in their “first need” scheme.