Morena deputy Concepción Rueda in Oaxaca pushes the ‘Ley Cazzu’ so a judge can authorize children's travel and procedures when a parent unjustifiably refuses. In Michoacán, PVEM's Sandra María Arreola submits a similar initiative to amend the Constitution. The measure aims to prevent absent parents from blocking their children's mobility.
Deputy Concepción Rueda from Morena in Oaxaca introduced the initiative dubbed ‘Ley Cazzu’. It aims to ensure children, girls, and adolescents can travel and handle procedures without being trapped in adult conflicts. “In Oaxaca, there are girls and boys who cannot travel or do procedures because of a absent parent's refusal. That is not care: it is control”, Rueda explained on social media.
The bill allows a judge to immediately authorize travel or procedures in cases of unjustified refusal. It would also grant permanent travel permission if legal abandonment by a parent is proven.
In Michoacán, PVEM deputy Sandra María Arreola promotes an agreement to add provisions to the state's fourth constitutional article. The initiative tackles how parents who have abandoned economic or upbringing responsibilities still block procedures like passports or moves by requiring their authorization.
Both proposals create agile mechanisms with a gender perspective so the primary guardian can obtain national and international mobility authorizations. They note that over eleven million single mothers in Mexico handle full care responsibilities and three in four children of separated parents receive no alimony. The term ‘Ley Cazzu’ refers to a public debate in Latin America stemming from complaints by Argentine singer Julieta Emilia Cazzuchelli.
