Teatros junto a los hospitales

Enrique X. de Anda

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...