Historic investment announced in INAH and Inbal facilities

This six-year term, the federal government will invest 380 million pesos to rehabilitate several archaeological sites and zones under the responsibility of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), reported the head of this body, Joel Omar Vázquez Herrera.

During the conference by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the official said that the project, with a progress of 46 percent, covers the renovation and modernization of 46 archaeological zones, 12 site, archaeological and regional museums and 12 ball games, located in the same number of entities in the country.

Of the total amount of resources for the plan, he indicated that 40 million pesos (10.5 percent) will be allocated to the maintenance of the National Museum of Anthropology and 30 million (7.8 percent) for the archaeological zone of Teotihuacan. Another of the emblematic areas that the plan includes is the maintenance of the archaeological zone and the Templo Mayor Museum.

“If we are betting on this investment it is because for 30 years there has been no investment in the cultural infrastructure of these venues,” declared the general director of INAH.

In turn, the head of the Ministry of Culture, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, pointed out that they are also working on a program to renovate the country’s artistic and cultural education schools.

The project consists of an investment of 1,500 million pesos for the rehabilitation of 1,405 academic spaces of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (Inbal) and 220 of the INAH.

Among the first are 118 dance halls, 265 music classrooms, 384 academic halls and administrative spaces, and six galleries, as well as the waterproofing of 49 schools and the purchase of around 23 thousand musical instruments, furniture and scientific equipment for laboratories and workshops. Meanwhile, INAH schools serve 122 classrooms, 13 laboratories and a specialized warehouse.

The Undersecretary of Cultural Development of the Ministry of Culture, Marina Núñez Bespalova, announced the inauguration, at the end of May, of the Textile Museum of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples, a space that will be located in the Casa del Marqués del Apartado, in the Historic Center of Mexico City, and that will have a collection of 210 pieces on permanent exhibition with the aim of preserving and disseminating textile art.

The federal president pointed out that during the six-year term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, archaeological sites and other spaces in the Mayan area of ​​the country were intervened – due to the Mayan Train project – and now places where other native cultures flourished will be improved.

Modifications to the Copyright Law

The Chamber of Deputies will make corrections to the opinion of the Culture Commission that reforms the federal Copyright and Labor laws to address the observations made by interpreters and dubbing actors.

The modifications, which are negotiated with the Ministry of Culture, will be made next week in plenary session, announced the coordinator of the Morena bench, Ricardo Monreal.

The opinion was removed from the debate of the session on March 24 due to the disorganization in which it was approved a day before in the Culture Commission, since its president, Alma Lidia de la Vega (Morena), accepted that there were two different projects, one without changes to the initiative of President Shein-baum and another with modifications.

In the end, when it was approved, it was not clear which of the two documents was endorsed, since even the legislator said, in response to the doubts of PRI deputies, that both were approved.

Yesterday, Monreal reported that the reforms to the two laws were included in the agenda of the session on Wednesday, which concluded early Thursday morning.

“The resolution of this opinion that has to do with reforms to the labor law and the copyright law was on the agenda. However, it was almost 5 in the morning and we decided at the Board (of Political Coordination) to postpone it until April 7,” he explained.

In addition, he reported, reservations are expected because there are proposals for changes, both from the groups of authors, composers and dubbing actors, as well as from the digital industry and audio and video platforms “to improve the opinion.”

He said that, even though the legislative process in committees has already been exhausted, his party is “very open to modifying it, enriching it and reaching consensus” during the debate in plenary.

He pointed out that he still cannot anticipate what modifications will be made to the document because talks are also being held with the Ministry of Culture and the Legal Department of the Presidency, “where different sectors have attended. We are open to reviewing it in all seriousness,” he emphasized.

–Is there favoritism to privilege a specific sector? To the Cantorals? –he was asked.

“No, no,” he answered.

With information from Enrique Méndez