With a view to the conclusion of the current government and the change of federal administration, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) yesterday began a balance of institutional action in this six-year term to determine the scope, pending tasks and tasks aimed at the process of strengthening that institution. The purpose is to integrate a diagnosis that will be delivered to the next authorities, reported Diego Prieto, its general director.
This analysis, he added, will extend to the more than eight years that he has headed that agency, because it was necessary to take care of a series of problems that the institute had been dragging on towards the end of the last administration and in accordance with the formation of the Secretariat of Culture (federal), to which it belongs.
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In an interview, the anthropologist commented that, as part of this process, he held a two-hour meeting yesterday with members of the INAH community in its general direction, to which more than 180 online connections from various parts of the country were added. country, with up to five participants in each one.
For this reason, he ruled out that it was a frustrated meeting, after an interdisciplinary group of 136 workers from that agency, including academics and researchers, refused to participate in that meeting on Tuesday, an invitation he issued to them last Saturday through a statement.
With such an invitation, Prieto responded to a position that this group addressed at the end of May to the then two candidates and the candidate for the Presidency in which, he said, they expressed an alleged precarious situation at the institute, along with their rejection of the direction this one has taken.
It was a very fruitful meeting, although they decided not to come; They are within their rights, I respect them, they know that the possibility of talking to me is open to them.
The anthropologist specified that the aforementioned diagnosis will include the problems, scope, achievements, achievements, pending tasks, and the immense social and governmental tasks of the institute facing the new government period
. He set September 4 as the deadline to have the final document ready, after a process that will involve particular balances and diagnoses in the work centers, coordinations and specialty areas of the institute.
Among other aspects, at the meeting some work centers presented the progress of their particular balances, such as the Culhuacán Community Center; were also made very critical remarks
about the budgetary circumstances of the institute, as well as other broader ones about the cultural, intellectual and social task of that agency at the current time in the country, he said.
To an express question about whether he envisions or wishes to remain for the next six years as director of the INAH, Prieto responded that, in personal terms, he maintains two very clear positions
. One, he said, is his desire to return to teaching at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and, the other, his interest in participating in the transformation process of the next government.
If, according to my profile and characteristics, I can serve in something the government of Claudia Sheinbaum or others that have to do with this new stage of the political and social transformation of Mexico, then I would consider it. Of course I am interested in participating and, if you want, participating in the social transformation of Mexico, but it is not that I am looking for a position. I agree with projects, not with positions
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