Causes outrage treatment that the mummies of Guanajuato have received, there are 8 complaints for desecration

Guanajuato, Gto.- The alleged irregularities in the Museum of the Mummies of Guanajuato and the transfer of these without sanitary permission, as well as their exhibition in contexts of fun and spectacle have been the subject of eight complaints, one of them for the desecration of human remains. These legal actions, promoted in 2020 by the cultural promoter and councilor of the City of Guanajuato, Paloma Robles, respond to the alleged violation of various legislations and ordinances, such as the Federal Law on Monuments and Archaeological, Artistic and Historical Zones, the Regulation of the General Health Law and the Criminal Code of the State of Guanajuato.REFORMA published this Friday the project of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) to study mummies, dignify their exhibition and preserve them, and their technical opinion that advises against moving them. According to Robles, former director of the museum, the Monuments Law is contravened by the possession of movable historical monuments (the mummies of Guanajuato) without declaring it to the INAH; that of Health, for moving arid remains between states without the corresponding sanitary permit and the Criminal Code for the desecration of the bodies by exhibiting them in contexts dedicated to fun, entertainment and spectacle. This code is also breached, he reports, due to indications of damage to the mummies, as well as indications of the loss of 22 bodies, among other causes related to the abuse of authority and influence peddling.” Why did we take all these actions? Because the Municipal President declared that the mummies were ambassadors of Guanajuato tourism and began to use them as luxury edecans in contexts dedicated to fun, entertainment and entertainment and even gave this decision an apparent legitimacy in a municipal agreement, which from our point of view, violates provisions of a general order, that is: it supplants functions of federal authorities, such as the Ministry of Health or as the INAH,” he explained in an interview. The complaints, Adds Robles, are part of a citizen movement that managed to stop the exhibition of the mummies in the 2020 Rally Mexico on the Underground Street of Guanajuato.” However,” he warned, “as there has not been a sentence as such, the Municipal President continued to use them and eight traveling exhibitions were presented.” At the end of last year, the mayor Alejandro Navarro planned, again, to present them in the Underground Street, but the representation of the INAH in Guanajuato recommended not to do so. Since then, the mummies have not come out.” I have dedicated myself to this full time because I realized that if I did not intervene, the mummies were going to end up in a very unworthy way,” says the biochemical engineer with a master’s degree in Arts.Robles considers “a small great victory” that the mummies “are not desecrated in contexts outside of education and research”, in reference to the INAH project to exhibit arid bodies with dignity, not as a show that incites morbidity.



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