Rafael Tovar y de Teresa
Rafael Tovar y de Teresa CEM (April 6, 1954 – December 10, 2016) was a Mexican diplomat, lawyer, scholar and historian. First
Biographical data
He was born in
He got a law degree from the
He began workinga as music critic of the cultural supplement of the Mexican newspaper
In 1979 he joined the Mexican Foreign Service, where he was head of the General Directorate of Cultural Affairs of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs from 1979 to 1982, then minister at the Mexican Embassy in France (1983 to 1987) and advisor to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1987 to 1988).
He served as Legal Affairs Coordinator of the newly founded National Council for Culture and the Arts, in 1989. Subsequently, from 1990 to 1991, he served as Coordinator of International Affairs of the same council, and then became general director of the
He was president, from September 17 from 2007 to October 25 from 2008, of the Organizing Committee of the Bicentennial Commemoration of the start of the National Independence movement and of
He died in Mexico City on December 10, 2016.
Works
He is the author of the book Modernización y política cultura (Modernization and cultural policy), edited by the Fondo de Cultura Económica, and participated in the collective work El patrimonio cultural de México (The cultural heritage of Mexico), two volumes.[5]
He published the novels: Paraíso es tu memoria (Paradise is your memory)[6] (Alfaguara, 2009); El último brindis de Don Porfirio (The last toast of Don Porfirio)[7] (Punto de Lectura. Santillana, 2012); De la paz al olvido. Porfirio Díaz y el final de un mundo (From peace to oblivion. Porfirio Díaz and the end of a world)[8] (Taurus, 2015).
Management at the National Institute of Fine Arts
He was general director of
Management in the National Council for Culture and the Arts (1992–2000)
As president of
In 1994, the National Center of the Arts as a space to generate and explore new models and approaches around education, research and artistic diffusion, and also to foster interdiscipline in art, promote new technologies in the arts and create spaces for academic and artistic cooperation between institutions of different systems and levels in Mexico and abroad.[10]
Also in 1994, it was created, in the building known as The Citadel, the Image Center, for the exposition of photography.[11] n audiovisual media, the Channel 22 of open television.[12] In the cinema, the Foprocine (Fund for Quality Film Production in Spanish) and the Fidecine (Fund of Investment and Stimulus to Cinema in Spanish), for the production of short films and feature films, deserving of awards in many cases and participants in international festivals.[13]
During this period, the program Ibermedia[14] in 1999, to develop excellent cinematographic projects. Likewise, it was integrated into the cultural sector National Cineteca, to which resources were allocated to protect its collections and expand and renovate its facilities. To stimulate film culture, the Universal Video Library.
With the purpose of providing the country with a new national museum that concentrated the
In parallel to his responsibility as president of
Management in the National Council for Culture and the Arts (2012–2015)
Among his tasks was the creation of a Digital Agenda of Culture,[17] to boost the development of applications on topics such as cinema, books, history, children and children music, among others.[18]
Creation of the Ministry of Culture
On September 2, 2015, the president Enrique Peña Nieto proposed, in his Third Government Report, the creation of the Secretariat of Culture.[19] On September 7 he sent his creation initiative to legislators, which was approved by the Senate on 15 from December. More than 100 years after the birth of the Secretariat of Public Instruction, in 1905, and after it became Secretariat of Public Education in 1921,[20] in 2015 the first Secretariat of Culture was founded. On December 21, 2015, Rafael Tovar y Teresa was named the first Secretary of Culture of Mexico.
Death
After being hospitalized since December 8, Rafael died early on December 10, 2016, at the age of 62 at the Military Hospital of Mexico City. His remains rest in the family crypt of the French Cemetery of San Joaquín in Mexico city next to his grandfather Guillermo de Teresa, his father Rafael Tovar Villa-Gordoa and his brother
On December 12 the then president Enrique Peña Nieto led a national tribute in memory of Rafael Tovar y Teresa at the National Center of the Arts, in which his son, Rafael Tovar López-Portillo delivered an emotional speech highlighting his father's legacy. Also, cellist Carlos Prieto highlighted the professional career of Tovar y Teresa. For his part, President Peña spoke of the human quality, professionalism and friendship he had with the deceased and placed him on the "altar of the greats" as José Vasconcelos and Jaime Torres Bodet.
Family
His brother,
References
- ^ "Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, Secretary of Culture". gob.mx. May 18, 2016.
- ^ "Meet the INBA". INBA. May 18, 2016.
- ^ "Who is Rafael Tovar y de Teresa?". Diario La Razón. December 21, 2015.
- ^ "Rafael Tovar y Teresa's resignation to the commission for bicentennial celebrations". La Jornada. October 25, 2008.
- ^ "Profile. Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, Secretary of Culture". El Universal. December 21, 2008.
- ^ "Paraíso es tu memoria". La Jornada/Opinion, Teresa del Conde. March 17, 2009.
- ^ "The last toast of Don Porfirio". casadellibro.com.
- ^ "Presentation of the book: "From peace to oblivion. Porfirio Díaz and the end of a world "". University of Guadalajara. November 30, 2015.
- ^ "Rules of Operation of the National System of Art Creators" (PDF).
- ^ "National Center of the Arts". Cenart-Academic Life.
- ^ "History". Image Center.
- ^ "History". Metropolitan Television. Channel 22. January 7, 2016.
- ^ "The Mexican Institute of Cinematography celebrates 32 years". Ministry of Culture. March 25, 2015.
- ^ "Iber programs, regional strategy to strengthen cultural development in Latin America". Ministry of Culture. June 2, 2015.
- ^ "MAP, five years of being a fundamental reference of Mexican popular art". Ministry of Culture. February 28, 2011.
- ^ "Year 2000 Program: "From the Century XX to the Third Millennium "".
- ^ "Mexico proposes to generate a cultural digital agenda: Conaculta". OEM online. December 10, 2014.
- ^ "$ 600 million earmarked a cultural infrastructure". El Economista. July 2, 2015.
- ^ "Peña Nieto announces the creation of the Ministry of Culture". El Universal. September 2, 2015.
- ^ "History of the SEP". SEP. September 23, 2013. Archived from the original on May 18, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
- ^ Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, secretary of Culture, dies.
- ^ Palapa Quijas, F. (2013). Guillermo Tovar de Teresa died: "Being a chronicler is not a work or a title, but a vocation," he said. La Jornada, supplement "La Jornada de enmedio", p. 8a, Culture section. (Accessed November 13, 2013)