MÉRIDA, Mexico – The government of Mexico City has donated a mansion for a cultural center that will be run by the Cuban Ministry of Culture.
The Mexico-Cuba Benny Moré cultural center will be “dependent on the Cuban Ministry of Culture and administered by the civil association of the same name, headed by Cuban writer and anthropologist Miguel Barnet Lanza,” The Mexican newspaper reported this Sunday The Day.
The property transferred for such purposes “is located at 16 Adolfo López Mateos Boulevard, San Ángel Inn neighborhood, in a mansion provided by the Government of Mexico City,” the information states.
“It will be Mexico’s home for Cuba and for all of America, a space to promote and exalt the educational and cultural values of our nations, with a varied artistic-literary program that will showcase the best of music, crafts, visual arts, cinema, theater and dance, through concerts, conferences, colloquiums and artistic creation workshops,” said Cuban ambassador Marcos Rodríguez Costa during the center’s inauguration on Saturday.
The inauguration ceremony was also attended by the acting head of government of Mexico City, Martí Batres, who is a member of Morena, the hegemonic party, and replaced the current president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum.
The Cuban ambassador expressed his gratitude to the government of Mexico City, as well as to President-elect Sheinbaum, “with whom we began this dream.”
During the inauguration, the books were presented On the wings of the condorby Fabian Escalante, and Biography of a runawayby Miguel Barnet, and the Mexican singer-songwriter Gabino Palomares, as well as the Cuban Alejandro García, performed. Virulothe information concludes.
“The director of the Benny Moré cultural center, Samuel Fonseca, stressed that this will be a space to promote and exalt the educational and cultural values of our nations,” the note adds.
Claudia Sheinbaum’s government is not expected to change AMLO’s stance of closeness to the Cuban regime. Mexico has become one of the main suppliers of oil to Cuba, as well as a recipient of the regime’s medical missions.
Last July, Sheinbaum met with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, to discuss the continuity of support for Cuban doctors during at least the first year of his administration (2024-2030). “(We met) with the Cuban foreign minister. They know that Cuba is a sister nation and we talked, for example, about the support they are giving us with Cuban doctors, being able to maintain it for next year and some other important issues in the Mexico-Cuba relationship,” Sheinbaum indicated.
