translated from Spanish: Start “Republic of Readers” give books Neza, Edomex

This Wednesday began in the municipality of Nezahualcóyotl the program “Republic of Readers 21 for the 21”, headed by the federal government together with the municipal government and in coordination with the Economic Culture Fund.The culture program seeks to promote reading among the police and the residents of Neza, in the State of Mexico, with the free distribution of 2 million 124 thousand 800 books. The inauguration event was chaired by the municipal president, Juan Hugo de la Rosa, the head of the General Directorate of Citizen Security (DGSC), Jorge Amador, Paco Ignacio Taibo II director of the Economic Culture Fund, Marilina Barona del Valle, general director of Publications of the Ministry of Culture, Roberto Rico Ramírez, national coordinator of the promotion of Reading, Alejandro Camarena, coordinator of Reading Clubs, who delivered books to police and neighbors which will be read in the daily meetings of the neighborhood security networks per block. Neza y la lectura Neza was chosen to start the federal project as it is one of the municipalities where there is the highest reading record among its inhabitants. “Why we started in Neza, why we started here, because it is a place where many years ago a program to promote reading and a program to promote reading by police breaks the schemes throughout the country,” said Barona del Valle.Read more: They close secondary school for 14 days in Toluca with a possible case of Covid-19The collection, explained the official, it was designed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Paco Ignacio Taibo. Among the copies will be delivered books by Carlos Monsiváis, Guillermo Prieto, Elena Garro, Elena Poniatowska, Octavio Paz and Rosario Castellanos, among other authors of the 21 that make up the catalog. War movies on Netflix with true stories

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