The cultural projects of the candidates

MEXICO CITY (Process).- The candidates for the Presidency and the Head of Government of Mexico City were already giving an account of their cultural proposals, and they all agreed that culture “is a right,” and reaffirmed their commitment to the sector.

Central points of the programs for the Executive are summarized below:Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, from the alliance “Let’s Keep Making History”, made up of Morena, the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), in their 20 points that make up his plan, and which he reiterated in the Zócalo on May 29, he highlighted that he will promote cultural rights and scientific and historical development.

The former head of the Government of Mexico City, supported by more than 900 intellectuals, scientists, artists and academics, stated throughout her campaign that a permanent link must be generated between educational policy and cultural policy, so that girls and children and adolescents have access to a true artistic initiation. Behind their cultural project have been the singers Susana Harp and Regina Orozco.

Sheinbaum Pardo proposed reviewing, expanding and strengthening programs such as the so-called Pillars (Point of Innovation, Freedom, Art, Education and Knowledge), the Creative Seedbeds and Cultural Treats, to continue promoting the culture of peace and artistic creation from the community level .

It will also study “fiscal stimuli, payment in kind for all artistic disciplines and support for creation, it will create a scheme for access to health, retirement, housing financing and other systems, and it will increase, “as far as possible ”, the amounts to finance, with ISR tax credits, national artistic and literary production.

It will promote throughout the country, with the help of local governments, the recovery and restoration of theaters, exhibition halls, cultural houses and partially abandoned or disused venues.

It will carry out an in-depth review of the set of laws that impact the cultural sector.

It will promote the recovery and restoration of theaters throughout the country, with the help of local governments.

For her, “culture must flow throughout the national territory, because only by knowing what others do do we learn to distinguish what makes us unique.” Her points are:

“Promote artistic education from childhood. Make more spaces available to artists and the cultural community. Safeguard and promote knowledge of the intangible heritage of Mexico. And recognize the importance of the indigenous peoples and the Afro-Mexican people in national history (Art. 2nd constitutional, 2019).”

Regarding Heritage and Memory, he specified:

“Deepen precise guidelines for the conservation of collections of all kinds: digitization, safeguarding and dissemination. Encourage the safeguarding of particular collections of national interest, providing support in their conservation, protection and dissemination, under the commitment to allow public access to their contents. Allocate resources for the maintenance and protection of the archaeological zones and historical monuments of the country, and specialized personnel to restore, protect and care for them. Maintain cooperation to stop illicit trafficking of goods. And create cultural circuits of visual and performing arts; artistic and training residencies”.

Regarding literature, he highlighted:

“The largest infrastructure that Culture has is its Public Library Network. We are convinced that the spaces must be maintained, including their internet connectivity for the provision of digital services.”

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For her part, in the hands of Consuelo Sáizar, former head of Conaculta, now the Ministry of Culture. There are ten points offered by the computer engineer and businesswoman.

Among them, it will develop digital applications to make production processes more efficient. Also, he stressed, the “marketing in handicraft inventories; the granting of the largest number of scholarships in the history of the country for art students, emerging artists, creators and cultural agents; an inclusive digital policy for art and culture that guarantees universal access and exercise of cultural rights for all Mexicans.”

The candidate emphasized that she will project the recovery of “the independence of the editorial line of the public radio and television media of art and culture.”

He reaffirmed his support for science and culture, “because they are fundamental to promoting the development and progress of Mexico.”

A group of “right-wing” intellectuals and academics supported Gálvez, including writers Alberto Ruy Sánchez, Héctor Águilar Camín and painters Martha Chapa and Ángeles Mastretta, among others.

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Jorge Álvarez Máynez, from Movimiento Ciudadano, proposed resuming the effort to strengthen technical and polytechnic universities throughout the nation. He remarked:

“It would be important for artists and cultural creators to have social security, but to do so we would have to end the employer quota system of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).”

To promote culture, the emecista chose to “revitalize the cultural sector” by promoting the education of girls and boys from a young age in artistic topics, and generating policies that finance cultural talents in dance and theater, in the same way that they exist for athletes. ”.

And in promoting culture, he detailed the possibility of creating cultural vouchers for scholarship students that allow them to spend on concerts, theater performances, among other activities.

Mexico City

Clara Brugada Molina, candidate of the “Let’s Keep Making History” coalition for head of government of the country’s capital, emphasized during her campaign that she conceives culture “as a right, not as an ornament or an accessory.”

He announced among his 20 proposals that he will create one hundred Utopias (Transformation and Organization Units for Inclusion and Social Harmony) throughout Mexico City.

He highlighted:

“Let the city be a space for artistic creation and expression. “Let it be a public space for culture and tourism, and with historical memory and cultural heritage.”

And he emphasized his objective:

“It is to make Mexico City the cultural capital of Mexico and America as a great international reference.”

He stressed:

“Every public space, park and even public transportation will become stages for the development of cultural and artistic activities. In terms of infrastructure, I will build auditoriums, movie theaters, spaces for artistic and cultural workshops, in short. We need a lot of cultural infrastructure. Just as we are going to allocate resources to build the five cablebus lines, this is how big and strong the cultural infrastructure will be for Mexico City.

“I will promote the creation of the University of the Arts of Mexico City, where the next artists are trained in visual arts, theater, dance, music, muralism, graphics and other disciplines. We are going to create a system of education and cultural information for Mexico City. We need a system that guides the cultural work of Mexico City, that links all the houses of culture that exist in the mayor’s offices, the Lighthouses (Factories of Arts and Crafts), the Pillars (Point of Innovation, Freedom, Art, Education and Knowledge), Utopias, all the cultural effort developed by our governments.”

It will implement the “Do, re, mi, fa, sol por mischool” program:

“We are going to ensure that all schools have all the musical instruments for the creation of the best orchestras. We will make an agreement with the federal government to see if teachers from the Ministry of Public Education and artists from the city give classes to all primary and secondary schools with all the great musical equipment.”

It will enliven festivals and cultural events for the city:

“There will be great cultural events in the Zócalo and many free concerts throughout the city. The streets will be available for sonideros and many other cultural expressions. We will create the Cultural Capital City passport that will allow free entry to museums, exhibitions, film festivals, recitals, in short. “We will support book fairs, programs to promote culture and the rescue of libraries.”

He also stated that he will work on the recognition of the rights of cultural workers, “mainly those who work in the city government and its mayors.” And she will position the Tiempo de Mujeres Festival as the emblematic festival of Mexico City.

He also noted:

“We will work on the preservation and dissemination of the immense national and world cultural heritage that we have in Mexico City and its historical memory. We will pay special attention to intangible heritage, historical memory in indigenous, popular and urban cultures.”

And it will turn the city into “the largest open gallery in the world” with the creation of murals displayed in public spaces and on the thousand kilometers of safe roads throughout the city.

A week ago, Brugada met with the film community and heard about the problems facing that industry. The requests are to promote technological innovation, create funds to support independent filmmakers, recover abandoned spaces to convert them into cinemas, create the Museum of Mexican Cinema, tax incentives and solve the extortion of organized crime in the locations that are chosen for to film.

The former mayor of Iztapalapa emphasized that “this industry is part of the economy that we must increase, and we have ten economic axes for the city that are new expansions of the economy, and one of them is this. All support for cinema.”

When asked by Terry Fernández, known as the dean of film and audiovisual locations, “how can the Government of Mexico City help us confront organized crime in the property rights that are being charged to us?” When are we working in the audiovisual industry on location? The politician responded:

“I understand that the issue of extortion is not widespread, fortunately, but there are cases. The collection of floor fees, in many other issues in the capital, is a relevant crime and we want legislation to convert this crime into a serious crime. That means that even if they act during these times, they let them leave, because extortion is not considered a serious crime. We are on the verge of making it, at the federal and then state level, a serious crime, but in the meantime we are not going to sit idly by. So we would gladly agree to see how we support this industry to be carried out safely and peacefully.”

In interview with Processactress and playwright Ana Francis Mor, who coordinates Brugada Molina’s culture program, said:

“We have listened to the cultural communities and everything they ask for, say, report, in short, has been very logical. Of course, there are a lot of structural problems dating back decades, and some have already begun to be resolved and others have not, and we must at least begin to resolve them. Which are structural conflicts that affect not only artists, but half of the population, such as access to housing and health, etc. Those conversations have been very interesting. It is a right to access culture, not only as learning, but also as a recreational activity to feed the soul.”

He specified that 16 Utopias will be created per year, and that people are choosing the places where they will be.

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Meanwhile, Santiago Taboada Cortina, candidate of the “Va As well as seeking international cultural exchanges.

Besides:

“Promote cultural incubators, including expressions such as fashion design. Support fairs, art markets, galleries and independent spaces. Respect labor agreements with workers in the cultural sector. Conservation and dissemination of the cultural heritage of Mexico City. Rescue the emblematic spaces of the mayor’s offices that are abandoned or undervalued.

“Preservation of properties that are cultural heritage through the generation of a public-private trust. Make a diagnosis of the collection, venues, monuments and cultural spaces that the Secretariat of Mexico City has. Promote gastronomy, with strategies such as the designation of origin of food and beverages grown and produced in the city. Enable cinema libraries in each of the 16 municipalities. And promote the formation of children and youth companies for the circus and performing arts.”

Also:

“Recover the identity and history of colonies, neighborhoods and native peoples. Strengthen community orchestras, the public library network and community reading rooms. Promote public-private partnerships and mixed financing. “Increasing the budget for culture and creating cultural and artistic events to attract visitors throughout the year.”

Former mayor Benito Juárez and candidate of the PAN, PRI and PRD, still met with film professionals, to whom he said:

“The only way to sustain a social policy is to have an economic policy, is to have industries, such as creative industries, such as cultural industries that trigger employment in the workplace, that trigger the economy and that lead to a better quality of life.”

There he promised to return to the Mexico City Film Festival. She argued:

“It is to attract tourism, attract above all production, but also much more resources, much more impact to Mexico City, as Barcelona had at the time, as Madrid has, and I believe that the city has that condition of becoming that pole of attraction in that first place to visit.”

He promised to provide all the support for the production of productions in CDMX, “which also generates a significant number of jobs,” and stressed that it must be a member of the Canacine (National Chamber of the Film Industry) who heads the Commission of Filming of the capital’s administration, because they are the ones who really know their needs and how to address them.”

He added:

“If we align the economic incentives, the incentives in terms of government priorities and if we align your incentives with the needs you have in terms of your creative productions, I believe that we can seek or we can achieve that Mexico City guarantees you quality and safety, that for me is a component that can be, whether you do it here or do it in another state of the Republic, that is a priority for me.”

And he highlighted that the problem of insecurity that prevails in Mexico City “also impacts productions, which are extorted for the use of public space, both by criminals and by the authorities themselves who seek to obtain personal benefit.”

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While the candidate of the Citizen Movement (MC), Salomón Chertorivski, emphasized “the democratization of the cultural offer, the guarantee of labor rights of workers and professionals of art and culture and the promotion of creative economies.”

For him, CDMX “is full of culture, ancient and modern history.”

Specific:

“Even young centennials and millennials are building their own stories. The question is how do we bring people closer, in a democratic way, to artistic and cultural expressions? It seems to me that it is essential that we do it from basic and secondary education.”

It will create the New Mexico City School, which will offer extended hours for teaching classes in different artistic disciplines and cultural expressions, as well as sports activities.

In his words, “art and culture must be consumed from an early age, the youngest children and adolescents must be taught the diversity of expressions with a pedagogical system; “We cannot continue thinking about there being only recorder classes in secondary schools.”