San Miguel de Allende, joins Iber Cultura Viva

Published October 6th, 2021

Guanajuato has joined the IberCultura Viva Network of Cities and Local Governments, with the purpose of supporting the local culture of the municipality’s native peoples, informed IberCultura Viva, an intergovernmental cooperation program presided over by Mexico, through the Federal Ministry of Culture.

IberCultura Viva is made up of 11 Ibero-American countries, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, whose purpose is to strengthen and make visible the cultural diversity of the region through public policies and the development of community-based cultural actions.

The IberCultura Viva Network of Cities and Local Governments is an initiative for coordination among the governmental institutions of the member countries, which work closely with native, indigenous, and Afro-descendant peoples, as well as with community cultural organizations.

The incorporation of the municipality of San Miguel de Allende into this Network was the result of the efforts of the then interim municipal president, Jesús Gonzalo González Rodríguez, who sent the request for membership to the Intergovernmental Council of IberCultura Viva, whose presidency, represented by the general director of Cultural Linkage at the federal Ministry of Culture, Esther Hernández Torres, approved its affiliation.

As a result of this membership, the municipal government of San Miguel de Allende, through its Directorate of Cultures and Traditions, undertakes to present, within 12 months, a strategic plan on the development of community-based cultural policies in its localities and, in addition, to propose the implementation of at least two activities in conjunction with IberCultura Viva.

With the adhesion of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico now has six representatives in the Network. The other five are Tabasco, a state that joined last month; the municipalities of Xalapa and Jojutla, which joined in May of this year; and San Luis Potosí and Zapopan, which joined the initiative in 2019.

Through actions such as this, the Ministry of Culture participates in strategic alliances aimed at strengthening and making visible Mexico’s cultural diversity.