On September 30, anthropologist Diego Prieto was ratified as the general director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH); This appointment was not well received by researchers, professors and workers at the institute.
On that occasion, Through a statement, addressed to President Claudia Sheinbaum, members of the National Union of Professors of Scientific Research and Teaching of the INAH expressed their direct rejection of the ratification of Prieto and its administrative structure.
In a statement they indicated that they consider “the need to have new and better profiles to manage, defend and fulfill the substantive tasks of this institute.”
Also they enlisted the reasons why it is necessary to renew the general director of the institutionwhich in recent years has gone through a series of problems that they go from the precariousness of the facilities, mistreatment of workers, the lack of hiring and the controversy of archaeological rescue on the Mayan Train.
“The administration under his charge has been characterized by the impoverishment of INAH schools and all Institutes; the golden caste of administrative bureaucracy grew; “He implemented a management structure based on nepotism and a network of loyalties,” they indicated.
The document also denounces that outsourcing was promoted in the Prieto administration, which caused a lack of based positions.
Given the lack of response to these accusations, the Technical and Professional Workers of the INAH Sector, belonging to the National Democratic Union of Workers of the Ministry of Culture, began a nationwide mobilization yesterday to express, once again, the rejection of the ratification of the General Director of INAH, Diego Prieto Hernández; This initiative will culminate when they obtain responses from the authorities.
This positioning also seeks to point out the disagreement with the lack of attention to multiple areas of the Institute, while the director prioritizes federal projects such as the Mayan Train, the Transisthmian Train and the Chapultepec Complex, “thus neglecting the fundamental needs of our cultural heritage,” they noted. the workers.
Ernesto Juárez Sánchez, general secretary of the Jalisco section of the INAH technical and professional sector, told THE INFORMER that this movement is at the national level and that each Entity is facing particular problems.
He indicated that the requests from the workers of the INAH Jalisco Center focus on the lack of solid museological scripts (permanent exhibitions) for INAH museums in Ciudad Guzmán, Puerto Vallarta, Teocaltiche and Lagos de Moreno.
Also They are requesting decent working conditions and declared that they oppose the arbitrary modification of their working hours. They also required responsibility in the management of assets; That is, they urge clarity in the procedures for transferring and managing collections, as well as in the projects for the archaeological zone of Ixtépete. Regarding the Regional Museum of Guadalajara, they request clarification on the closure of rooms.
This publishing house searched, without obtaining a response, for Alicia García Vázquez, director of the Center INAH Jalisco to clarify the situations pointed out by the workers.
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