Ebrard suggests that the cultural heritage of Banamex should become the property of the nation

the secretary of External relationships, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, considered that the important cultural heritage that it has Banamex, should become national property for preservation.

In his Twitter account he wrote that this could be a retribution for the “enormous and unfair support that we taxpayers have given with the large annual payments to cover the promissory notes IPAB, best known for Fobaproa”.

“With the announcement of the upcoming change of owners of Citibanamex I will be attentive to the integrity and destiny of the Banamex Cultural Foundation and the important cultural heritage that integrates it”, he mentioned.



It would be in the sales package

Last Tuesday the sale of Banamex by the American was announced Citigroup, which includes the banking license, brand, network of branches, credit portfolios, Afore, insurance company and the cultural heritage that the bank has, which is one of the most important in the country and which integrates, according to sources from the institution, more than 600 works relevant to the history of painting in Mexico.

Alberto Gomez Alcala, corporate director of Institutional development, economic studies and communication of Citibanamex, commented that day that all the artistic heritage.

“Yes, all of Banamex’s artistic heritage would be in the sale package. That includes your buildings, your stately homes, your art collection and any other infrastructure of the National Bank of Mexico would be included in this disincorporation,” he specified.

Works of Siqueiros, Rivera, Varo

An example of this cultural heritage that Citibanamex has today is the Palace of the Counts of San Mateo Valparaiso, in the Historic Center of Mexico City and which is the bank’s headquarters.

There, in 2019, the Valparaíso Forum was opened to the public, a space for innovation, entrepreneurship and culture that shows, permanently and free of charge, 114 works distributed in 14 rooms from the most important private collection of Mexican themes and authors such as: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Varus remedies, Jose Maria Velasco, Leonora Carrington, Julio Ruelas, Jose Clemente Orozco, Eulalia Lucius Y Francis Toledo.

This space, due to the pandemic, was closed for months, but recently reopened to small groups and with reservations.



Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx

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