Gutiérrez Müller ends visit to Chile; participates in tribute to Gabriela Mistral

Aldo Anfossi

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Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, October 26, 2022, p. 19

Santiago. The Minister of Historical and Cultural Memory of Mexico, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, concluded yesterday an official two-day visit to Chile where she participated in cultural events in tribute to the writer, diplomat and educator Gabriela Mistral, on the occasion of the centenary of her trip and two-year stay in Mexico (1922/24), where he participated in the educational campaign after the triumph of the revolution.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric participated in these activities, a fandango for reading at the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center and the unveiling of a replica of a mural by Roberto Montenegro from Jalisco, at the Museum of Education.

The wife of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gave an invitation to Boric to officially visit Mexico on the occasion of the summit of the Pacific Alliance that, on November 24 and 25, will be held in Oaxaca by the leaders of Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia.

Mistral, the only Latin American woman to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), traveled to Mexico at the initiative of José Vasconcelos, the country’s first Secretary of Public Education, to participate in the design and implementation of the educational literacy program. construction of schools, teacher training, book publishing and promotion of the arts, which was promoted in the post-revolution period.

After a century, the legacy of the writer is in force and is recognized, the tributes in Mexico as in Chilean land, the donation of the cultural heritage that she produced, give an account of it.

We brought with much love each mosaicGutiérrez Müller stated, referring to the replica of the Montenegro mural that is, along with others, in the main office and adjoining rooms of the Ministry of Public Education of Mexico, made between 1922/23.

The visit represents Mexico’s ability to love her, recognize her, admire her and bring her back to her homebecause it is universalsaid the wife of President López Obrador.

The president highlights the friendship between the countries

The Chilean president, in addition to paying tribute to Mistral, stressed that those two years, from 1922 to 1924, were key in his career because She arrived in Mexico as a reformist teacher and then continued her journey around the world as the wandering poet who, just a few years ago, when Chile was finally able to recover her legacy, we have begun to fully understand.

He added that invites us to renew a friendship that lacked more affection, precisely what this bond between Mexico and Chile is.

He had words to recognize what Mexico is for Chile with its load of history and cultural density, which it got into our soul and bloodremembering the murals Mexico to Chileby Xavier Guerrero, and death to invaderby David Alfaro Siquieros, located at the Mexico School in Chillán, and they remind us of the solidarity of a country that knows about earthquakes as much as we do, and whose help came unselfishly after the terrible tragedy of 1939which devastated that city in the south of the country.

remembered that the brotherhood did not stop therebut after the 1973 coup, “it is one of the nations that opened its doors to us with the most generosity and without asking for anything in return, in the saddest and darkest moments of our history.

When repression, death, darkness and torture were present in Chile, Mexico told us Welcome and allowed us a shelter we are grateful forsaid.

Gutiérrez Müller’s personal history is linked to Chile. His maternal grandfather, of German origin, was born in Chihuahua, but lived here until his death.

While her mother, Nora Beatriz Müller Bentjerodt, was born in Chile and migrated to Mexico, where she died in 2018.

López Obrador’s wife was born in the Mexican capital on January 13, 1969.