Lagunero authors transfer rights to the IMSS Anthem

The writer Jaime Muñoz Vargas and the composer Ricardo Serna García, both from La Laguna, signed an agreement for the transfer of copyright of the IMSS Anthem, in favor of the Mexican Social Security Institute.

On January 12, 2000, the call was made to capture in words and music the history and significance of the Institute in the lives of Mexicans, including 500,000 health workers. Both authors submitted their work under the pseudonym “Ave plena” and obtained the distinction of the jury that analyzed more than 160 works that Mexican writers and composers from all over the country submitted to the Institute.

The ceremony was held at the Arocena museum in Torreón and the signing of the transfer of rights was headed by the head of the Social Communication Unit of the IMSS, Amadeo Díaz Moguel. He stated that the anthem injects enthusiasm and heroism, values ​​that are and have been fundamental to facing, even in the darkest days like the pandemic, the challenge of public health.

For his part, the director of Operation and Evaluation of the IMSS, Javier Guerrero García, highlighted that it is a pride that Mexican authors and people from Lagunero at heart have won the contest called by Social Security for the creation of their anthem.

He thanked the state government for its willingness to work together to design the growth plan for the infrastructure and services of the IMSS and which allowed the recruitment of 330 newly recruited specialists to strengthen hospitals in Ciudad Acuña, Piedras Negras, Monclova, the Comarca Lagunera and the southeast region of Saltillo.

Present were the head of the Deconcentrated Administrative Operation Body (OOAD) of the IMSS in Coahuila, Leopoldo Santillán Arreygue; the head of the Coahuila Government Office, Ricardo González Hernández; the regulatory coordinator of the General Directorate of the IMSS, Jorge Marengo Camacho; the head of the OOAD of the IMSS in Durango, Claudia Díaz Pérez and the general secretary of Section XII of the National Union of Social Security Workers (SNTSS), Alejandro Cantú López.

Also the director of the High Specialty Medical Unit (UMAE) No. 71, Guadalupe Villa González, among others. The event was private so there was no access to the media.