{"id":375150,"date":"2026-06-26T00:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T00:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/375150\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T00:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T00:35:12","slug":"sacramento-formally-partners-with-morelia-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/375150\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento formally partners with Morelia, Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sacramento City Council chambers saw rare joy and color Thursday afternoon as it celebrated a new sister city partnership with Morelia, the capital city of the Mexican state of Michoac\u00e1n.<\/p>\n

The city of Sacramento welcomed 35 representatives from the city, including Mayor Alfonso Martinez Alcazar, to formalize the cultural alliance with the Mexican city.<\/p>\n

Morelia will join 12 other cities in Sacramento\u2019s \u201cfamily\u201c of sister cities.<\/a> The program\u2019s mission is to develop mutually beneficial cultural, educational, social and economic relationships between the city of Sacramento and its sisters.<\/p>\n

\"Alfonso Alfonso Mart\u00ednez Alc\u00e1zar, the mayor of Morelia, Mexico, celebrates the signing of a sister city agreement with Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty at Sacramento City Hall on Thursday. REN\u00c9E C. BYER rbyer@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

In his opening remarks welcoming Alcazar, McCarty acknowledged \u201cdivision\u201d between the United States and Mexico, saying that he wanted to move in a different direction than federal leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis ratification is more than just a paper, it\u2019s an opportunity to further strength going back decades, if not centuries, between the people of California and the people of Mexico,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Councilmember Eric Guerra, one of 300,000 people in the Sacramento region of Michoac\u00e1n descent, spoke about the city\u2019s history of independence and liberation. Morelia is named after Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Morelos, a revolutionary priest and key leader of the Mexican War of Independence.<\/p>\n

\"Councilmember Councilmember Eric Guerra, center, reacts after the sister city sign for Morelia, Mexico, is unveiled at Sacramento City Hall on Thursday. REN\u00c9E C. BYER rbyer@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

Guerra said that when faced with the decision of joining the North or South during the Civil War, Californians looked to Michoac\u00e1n history and its rejection of slavery.<\/p>\n

After both mayors signed the memorandum of understanding formally establishing the partnership, the men rung a replica of the bell rung when Mexico established independence. Moments after, they unveiled the sign pointing to Michoac\u00e1n on the pole pointing to all of Sacramento\u2019s sister cities outside City Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile some are focusing on building walls, including the leaders of our country \u2014 today in Sacramento, we are building bridges,\u201d McCarty said.<\/p>\n

\"Ruben Ruben Reveles looks at his artwork made for Morelia Mayor Alfonso Mart\u00ednez Alc\u00e1zar, far right, as he stands alongside members of the Sacramento City Council during a sister city celebration at Sacramento’s City Hall on Thursday. REN\u00c9E C. BYER rbyer@sacbee.com Sacramento\u2019s sister cities<\/p>\n

Sacramento established its first sister city relationship in 1961.<\/p>\n

Manila\/Pasay City, Philippines, 1961\/2006Matsuyama, Japan, 1981Jinan, China, 1984Hamilton, New Zealand, 1988Liestal, Switzerland, 1989Chisinau, Moldova, 1989Yongsan-gu, Korea, 1997San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua, 2006Bethlehem, Palestine, 2009Askelon, Israel, 2012Mexicali, Mexico, 2013Morelia, Mexico, 2026<\/p>\n


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Jennah Pendleton<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Jennah Pendleton is an education reporter for The Sacramento Bee. She previously covered schools and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. She grew up in Orange County and is a graduate of the University of Oregon.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento City Council chambers saw rare joy and color Thursday afternoon as it celebrated a new sister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-375150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}