Members of the Mexico City Arts Assembly (ADA) yesterday questioned the reduction of the budget for the Culture sector, contemplated in the Draft Federal Expenditure Budget 2025 (PPEF), for which they asked the treasury and Culture authorities to maintain the same budget for 2024.
This, after the Treasury delivered the PPEF to the Chamber of Deputies last Friday, in which a budget reduction of 27.8% is observed, in nominal terms, and 30.9%, in real terms.
The letter, obtained by Excélsior, was sent to the head of federal Culture, Claudia Curiel; the Secretary of the Treasury, Rogelio Ramírez; to deputies, senators and the President. The members of the ADA express their surprise and disagreement with the proposed 30% cut to Culture (to 12,081 million pesos) in the PPEF 2025, currently under review, “because it aggravates a crisis that persists and deepens in the sector.”
Faced with this scenario, the ADA proposed maintaining the Culture budget for 2024 (16,754 million pesos), reallocating the difference in areas such as creation, production, research, education, artistic management and promotion; as well as those who give life to the ecosystem of art and culture in Mexico.
They asked Curiel “to immediately open a forum to work together on the best way to make the Culture budget progressive throughout this administration.”
Source: excelsior
