image for illustration: Palacio de Gobierno, Puebla, México, Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Bloomberg reports that although Mexico is… a ‘cultural powerhouse’, critics are warning that… ‘far too little is spent on maintaining the country’s oldest and most fragile sites.’
Bloomberg writes:
In… Sheinbaum’s term, the budget for the country’s premier antiquities institute, INAH, has… reduced close to 40%….
‘We have, like, eight Machu Picchus,’ says Alejandro Zozaya, a Mexican hotel impresario… Caribbean rivals would ‘cut off an arm’ to just have one historical site as dramatic….’
