During the presidential conference, a summary of the various actions for the rescue of historical memory and the defense of historical heritage was presented. The director of the General Archive of the Nation, Carlos Ruiz Abreu, highlighted that during this administration, this institution, which is considered the largest historical collection in Latin America, has gone from the “alarming precariousness in which it was found” to the recovery and digitalization of documents for their preservation.
Before President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Ruiz Abreu said that, among other things, there is unrestricted access to all documentation related to the Federal Security Directorate and the General Directorate of Political and Social Investigations. There are 5.7 million files on police persecution and repression, abuses during the period of the Dirty War and the serious human rights violations that were recorded.
He also mentioned that documents of historical nature that had been illegally extracted were recovered.
For his part, the director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, Diego Prieto, said that as part of the international projection that was intended to give to the historical and cultural heritage of Mexico, 34 exhibitions were promoted in various countries in Europe, the United States, China, Japan and Abu Dhabi.
He recalled that in parallel with the construction of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport, archaeological pieces were safeguarded and from that, the Mammoth Museum was formed, in the vicinity of the air terminal.
In turn, historian Pedro Salmerón, head of the new General Agrarian Archive, stressed that during the neoliberal period all documentation related to social ownership of land in Mexico, representing more than 51 percent, was abandoned and dumped in three warehouses without the minimum conditions for preservation.
He announced that the new headquarters of the General Agrarian Archives, where all the documentation will be moved, is about to be handed over, said Salmerón.
The conference began with an unusual break from protocol. López Obrador went to the front row to give a hug to the writer Elena Poniatowska, who heads the advisory council of Historical Memory.
He commented that the press conference started late because, at the start of his last week of government, the cabinet meeting that begins at 6 in the morning turned into a farewell party among the members with tamales and mariachis.
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