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The program for the reconstruction of Mexico’s cultural heritage included more than 1,500 churches and more than 2,000 homes.
The DGSYMPC and the INAH are in charge of investing attention efforts in cultural aspects of the country.
The meeting of items and documents preserved during the repair work was announced.
Today, during the press conference “La Mañanera” presented by the President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), a report was released on the progress in urban reconstruction and, with it, spaces of the cultural heritage of the nation, housing, churches, libraries, public squares and more.
In the same way, the investments made for the reconstruction of spaces affected by the 2017 earthquake were announced.
National Reconstruction Program has benefited… 1500 churches?
Román Meyer, head of the Ministry of Agrarian Development, pointed out that this program began in 2019, with 2021 being its year with the largest budget expansion, serving all the corridors of the Mayan Train, in addition to the vicinity of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA).
In the same way, it was announced that to date 931 facilities have been reached, which include schools, public spaces, markets, sports facilities, in addition to 250,000 housing actions through the National Housing Commission.
In the same way, he shared that this has been worth the generation of 370 thousand jobs and 94 national and international recognitions of architecture and urbanism.
In the same way, Edna Vega, Undersecretary of Territorial and Agrarian Planning, announced that about 68 thousand 717 actions have been implemented with 32 thousand 438 million pesos invested by all sectors through the National Reconstruction Program.
In the same way, he stressed that for said reconstruction program, they have invested in the construction of municipal palaces, museums, kiosks, libraries and fountains, in addition to recognizing that they have invested in the construction of 1,579 temples of religious worship. , acknowledging the maintenance given to the Metropolitan Cathedral.
Maintenance in conjunction with the Catholic Church is framed, according to what he mentions, in attention to structures that are part of the “cultural heritage of the nation.”
Those responsible in the cultural sector are the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage Sites and Monuments (DGSYMPC) and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)which have invested 173 million and 1,588 million pesos respectively.
In the same way, he shared that these reconstruction efforts in coordination with the communities, municipal governments, state governments and religious associations have made extreme efforts to attend to the structures damaged during the 2017 earthquake.
Thus, they shared that, in addition to these reconstructions of the cultural heritage of Mexico, the works were worth to the cultural institutions for having found valuable and study articles among which boxes with documents in Latin in an optimal state of conservation stand out.
In addition to this, it was commented that the works in the Metropolitan Cathedral have been carried out to prevent the collapse of the structures in the Historic Center of Mexico City.
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