Laura Poy and Alexia Villaseñor
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, October 25, 2024, p. 12
The reallocation of federal resources from the Ministry of Public Education (SEP) to the Government of Mexico City for the integration of the Living Museum of Muralism (MVM) increased this year from 140 million to 163 million 710 thousand 165 pesos, so The investment for the restoration, rehabilitation and equipment of the facility exceeded 313 million pesos.
In the amending agreement to the agreement for the reallocation of public funds, published in the Official Gazette of the Federation On October 11, an expansion of the amount assigned in May of this year was established, which had a limit of 140 million pesos, including the payment of VAT, a figure lower than the amount assigned in 2023, of 150 million.
The resources transferred rose last September to 163 million 710 thousand pesos in order to include the payment of six additional items, among them the external opinions of the work for 7.7 million pesos, as well as 12 million 790 thousand for the work on the Ibero-American hall.
Inaugurated on September 25 by Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the MVM occupies more than 3 thousand square meters of the historic headquarters of the SEP, and seeks to be a recognition of the Mexican artistic movement that enriched universal art and is an important reference to understand national history
states the agency.