{"id":407338,"date":"2026-01-13T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407338\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:51:11","slug":"boxing-with-a-cause-for-youth-battling-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407338\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing with a Cause for Youth Battling Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing with a Cause for Youth Battling Addiction<\/p>\n<p>During Martes de Caf\u00e9, a boxing card was presented that will take place at the Cuauht\u00e9moc Sports Center with the goal of helping young people undergoing addiction rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to the event, scheduled for Saturday, January 17 at 5:00 pm, will require bringing one kilogram of donated food (beans, rice, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel \u201cNitchs\u201d Jim\u00e9nez will face Daniel \u201cDrag\u00f3n\u201d S\u00e1nchez for a World Boxing Council title.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Silva, Director of Hacienda Nueva Vida, stated: \u201cMauricio, I will never get tired of thanking you for the support of the WBC. To the mayor, thank you for opening the doors to allow us to hold this sporting event with the purpose of supporting all the young people who are in the process of rehabilitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoxing at Hacienda Nueva Vida has been a tool to overcome addiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giovanni Madrigal, known on social media as \u201cPadrino Huevo,\u201d said: \u201cI want to thank Mayor Alessandra for giving us the opportunity, for giving us a space and for acknowledging us. I also want to tell families that there is hope, that there is still a possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alan \u201cRey\u201d Picasso shared these words with the attendees, among whom were young people in rehabilitation at Hacienda Nueva Vida: \u201cFor me, it is very special to be here today. Across the street is the sports center where I started training in boxing. I don\u2019t know what my life would be like today if I hadn\u2019t practiced sports. Boxing and life have something in common: even though we may take many punches, we must keep moving forward and never throw in the towel. I am very proud of all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To conclude the event, Mayor Alessandra Rojo de la Vega and Aaron Silva, Director of Hacienda Nueva Vida, signed a cooperation agreement to help rescue people experiencing homelessness and save them from adicctions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-173816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/convenio-.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The mayor stated: \u201cWhat an important agreement, and how important it is to work together to move our causes forward. Today we are setting an example from civil society, world champions, opinion leaders, institutions, and the government of the Cuauht\u00e9moc borough, showing that unity is strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_173821\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"173821\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing with a Cause for Youth Battling Addiction During Martes de Caf\u00e9, a boxing card was presented that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-407338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}