La vulnerabilidad institucional en el patrimonio cultural mexicano

Abstract

The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus is undoubtedly one of the greatest disasters that humanity has faced in a long time. However, although it is a crisis that mainly affects the public health sphere, other sectors will be affected as well, since the pandemic will limit the development expectations set by countries. In Mexico, the Federal Government has implemented strategies to face the economic crisis that involve strong budget cuts for federal agencies, including the Instituto Nacional de Antropologi?a e Historia. This text analyzes how these budget cut adds to the financial and structural weakening that the Institute has faced since at least 2014, through a systematic decrease in its financial capacity in real terms. This, as a consequence, generates a situation of institutional vulnerability that seriously affects the country’s cultural heritage; particularly in the face of natural hazards with the potential to affect cultural heritage, such as earthquakes.