The National System for Integral Family Development ( es, Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia, links=no; SNDIF or just DIF) is a Mexican public institution of social assistance that focuses on strengthening and developing the welfare of the Mexican families. The institution was founded in 1977 by

Carmen Romano Carmen Romano de López Portillo (born Carmen Romano Nolk; 10 February 1926 – 9 May 2000) was the First Lady of Mexico from 1976 to 1982. She was the first wife of Mexican president José López Portillo. Personal life and death In the 1970 ...

, the wife of Mexican President

José López Portillo José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 t ...

and

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. Its national director reports directly to the

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, and the role was traditionally held by the First Lady until 2000, when President

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, who was unmarried, appointed

Ana Teresa Aranda Ana Teresa Aranda Orozco (born January 26, 1954 in León, Guanajuato) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party who served as Director of the DIF (the "National System for Integral Family Development") from 2000 to 2006 ...

to the post. Its local chapters report to municipal presidents and governors. Mexico received praise from international human rights advocates in November

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in t ...

for changing responsibility for the care of migrant children from the National Migration Institution (NIM) to the DIF.

References

External links

Official site
Executive branch of the government of Mexico {{Mexico-gov-stub