Overview
- Senate president Laura Itzel Castillo led the ceremony placing Gerardo Fernández Noroña’s portrait in the Salón Colosio gallery at the old Xicoténcatl building.
- Public records cite a direct cost of 27,874 pesos for the hand-painted work, while some outlets reported a total outlay near 32,000 pesos, highlighting a small discrepancy.
- The portrait was painted by Aurora Argüello Gutiérrez, and Noroña praised her work as consistent with recent Senate commissions.
- Noroña defended the event and said his Rome vacation was paid with his own resources, calling it absurd to question the develation over his travel.
- Senate leaders emphasized his tenure’s output—over 20 constitutional reforms and about 80 secondary laws, including the Judicial Reform—while coverage noted some invited officials did not attend and social media fixated on austerity optics.