Teatros junto a los hospitales

Since the creation of the Ministry of Public Education (1920), an innate relationship was established between education and culture (in its sense of cultivation of the fine arts) in such a way that in the structure of said Ministry it was always considered a Department of Fine Arts , became General Directorate of Aesthetic and Extracurricular Education until the current National Institute of Fine Arts. This link between education and fine arts was somehow disrupted when on December 1, 1958, Adolfo López Mateos assumed the presidency of the Republic for the period 1958-1964. An artist by nature (he had participated in José Vasconcelos's campaign for the presidency where he stood out as a speaker) and personally interested in cultural activities, from his protest speech he raised the general guidelines of his administration in the following terms: "Constantly raising the people's living standards to achieve greater freedom, more culture and better well-being, as attributes of the dignity of man, which is the essential object of social institutions ". (Speech by lawyer Adolfo López Mateos when protesting as President of the Republic before the Congress of the Union, December 1, 1958) This opened the door for Benito Coquet, head of the Mexican Social Security Institute, to implement a policy that contemplated cultural and artistic and architectural activities in the field of social security that would turn said institute into a kind of second backbone through which the State would implement its cultural policy. This policy would be carried out by Coquet from the application of two strategies: one, which implied the construction of a theatrical infrastructure without precedent in Mexico or Latin America and not surpassed today; and two, through a program that will contribute to raising the cultural level of the insured population and their families. The first was part of a State policy to increase its public works, which in this six-year term included communication routes (roads, bridges, etc.), schools (statistically a classroom was built every two hours), public services (lighting, sewerage ), markets, sports centers and clinics in the health field, hospitals, rural sanatoriums and hygiene centers, already dependent on the Ministry of Health and Assistance or the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS). All with a view to "fighting ignorance, unhealthiness and poverty." Defined as an autonomous center - administratively - the IMSS obtained its resources f

Year

2020

Language

Spanish

Publisher

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Arquitectura

Editions

1

Pages

440

ISBN

9786073029919

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