The new Internal Regulations of the SC are published in the DOF
The new Internal Regulations of the SC are published in the DOF
From the Editorial Staff
La Jornada Newspaper, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, p. 4
The new Internal Regulations of the federal Ministry of Culture (SC) were published yesterday in the Official Gazette of the Federation . The decree, signed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, repeals the regulations published on November 8, 2016.
Compared to the previous regulations, which considered 16 administrative units, the new regulations stipulate 12, including the Directorate of Cultural Diffusion and the Unit of Living Cultures, Intangible Heritage, and Interculturality, directed by anthropologist Diego Prieto.
Living Cultures is listed as the fourth unit, just below the Undersecretariat of Cultural Development and the Administration and Finance, and Legal Affairs units.
Its tasks include proposing and coordinating public policies on living cultures, intangible cultural heritage and interculturality, with a territorial, participatory, inclusive and gender-sensitive approach
, as well as strengthening cultural actions in communities with high rates of marginalization, poverty or violence through community-based and citizen participation programs
.
Among nine other sections, it also states that it will promote collaboration with the National Institutes of Anthropology and History, Fine Arts and Literature, and Indigenous Peoples, and other agencies, in pursuit of joint programs to benefit living, indigenous, and Afro-Mexican cultures
.
The poet José de Jesús Sampedro passed away.
From the Editorial Staff
La Jornada Newspaper, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, p. 4
The poet, editor, and essayist José de Jesús Sampedro passed away yesterday, according to the Mexican Academy of Language. Sampedro edited the well-known Zacatecas literary magazine Dos Filos for five decades.
The workshop facilitator and teacher was born in Zacatecas in 1950. Dos filos began publication in 1974 and captured a landscape of narrative, poetry, countercultural movements, essays, film criticism, music, and visual arts.
Sampedro earned a bachelor's degree in economics and was an active member of the Mexican communist movement. He contributed to publications such as La Jornada Semanal , Los Universitarios , El Buscón , Casa del Tiempo , University of Mexico , El Gallo Ilustrado , Sábado , and La Cultura en México .
The cultural disseminator won the 1975 Aguascalientes Poetry Awards for his poetry collection Un (ejemplo) salto de gato pinto , and the 2018 Ibero-American Ramón López Velarde Award for promoting the literature of Mexico and Latin America and, mainly, for his dedication to and dissemination of the work of the author of La Suave Patria .
Sampedro's published texts include If He Enters, I Enter (1981), The Star, the Fool, the Lovers (1985), and Not Being and Being (2012). He was a corresponding academic in Zacatecas at the Mexican Academy of Language.
Japan's National Ballet to perform in London
▲ London's Royal Opera House welcomed the National Ballet of Japan, which will perform Giselle . The company, directed by Miyako Yoshida, was founded in 1997 and has a wide repertoire of classical dance, including classic works such as Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker , as well as contemporary works by Nacho Duato, David Bintley and Christopher Wheeldon. In the image, principal dancers Shun Izawa and Yui Yonezawa during a rehearsal yesterday at the legendary British stage. Photo: Afp
La Jornada Newspaper, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, p. 4
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