The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, has recognized, in Mexico City, the Spanish Athenaeum as the first Place of Memory outside our borders. This space, which celebrates 75 years of life, is a reference of Spanish education and culture in the North American country. This recognition is part of the program of events on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the arrival in Mexico of ‘Sinaia’, the first ship of republican refugees who left Spain during the Civil War.
Minister Torres, who is accompanied on this institutional visit to Mexico by the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez, and by the Director General of Attention to Victims and Promotion of Democratic Memory, Zoraida Hijosa, has also made a floral offering in Parque España, in the monument of President Lázaro Cárdenas.
The delegation has also visited the Colegio Madrid, a centre created in 1941 that has worked from that date until today to train children of Spanish exiles first, and then other young Mexicans, with a pedagogical model that is related to the educational policy of the Second Republic.