The creation of Conaculta responds to the need for a governing body that gives increase coherence to a public policy historically developed in the country by a wide variety of agencies and units of the most diverse institutional nature. Among them, the administrative units of the former undersecretary of Culture of the Ministry of Public Education, Council of the immediate background, the various institutions and units of other departmets for their cultural functions have been transferred at various times and finally the bodies to the area of Culture, a number of long tradition.
The Conaculta was established in December 1988 as a decentralized body of the Education Department through a presidential decree. This was given powers in matters of promotion and dissemination of culture and the arts, played above the Undersecretary for Culture of the Ministry of Public Education.
Among the reasons that led to its creation, the Government assume its role in stimulating cultural and artistic creation, ensuring full freedom of creators, which is why the government presence in this area would be essentially organizational and advocacy. Similarly, it was recognized that the State should encourage cultural expressions of different regions and social groups in the country, promoting the wider dissemination of art and cultural links between the various sectors of the mexican population, in addition to preserve and enrich the historical and cultural heritage of the nation.
Its scope of operation is at the national level, promoting a strategy of administrative decentralization with the aim of getting a larger number of mexicans diversity of its cultural and artistic wealth, and internationally in order to increase the presence of art and culture in major national forums on the world. Will be direct beneficiaries of their actions, the country’s population as a whole, with whom he will seek a permanent forms of cooperation in cultural projects, and the hundreds of thousands of spectators and visitors who attend the exhibitions, cultural events and film in major cultural capitals.
In response to the demands and requirements of a cultural nature of Mexican society, from the creation of the Conaculta is home to various programs and activities, with the primary purpose of enriching the cultural identity of mexicans. |
Be the institution of national importance which guarantees the preservation of cultural heritage, which promotes art and culture in all its expressions, disseminates, through various media, art and cultural programs of national interest, using technology platforms who claim to provide services of international quality.
