The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has identified three false pieces of the train of Mexican prehistoric objects that Christie’s case house has submitted on February 9 in Paris. Pero falsas o no, hay pocas posibilidades de que el Gobierno mexicano tenga éxito en su intentión de frenar la subasta y recuperar esas piezas, una nuva reclamation in la que ha tomado parte la Fiscalía General de la República y la cancillería. The French legislation entails these transactions as a private commercial exchange in which nothing is involved. “This is an act that is not permissible for the Mexicans, it treats the nation well and cannot trade with them,” said INAH Director-General Diego Prieto Hernández this March.
The Mexican island is meridian in respect: the patrimonial estates are inalienable, indescribable and indefinite and are the export of archaeological pieces or of particular relevance. The problem is that Mexico has always been able to accredit coma, which does not sacrific its treasures of the country, some of them probably including before the year of 1972, in which electoral participation Alejandro Gertz Manero participated. And the INAH insists that no hooi duda de que pertenecen al pueblo de México y que han debido por fuerza ser expoliadas is nie. The best life by title Quetzalcóatl, serpiente emplumada and offer the pieces in denominations between 4,000 and 900,000 euros (100,000 pesos to 22.3 million pesos).
One of the cases for which these opacity litigation objects have legal title is, precisely, their step by step. “Through these commercial cases, the celebrities in countries such as France, with which we do not have bilateral agreements, as with the United States, who demand to certify the procedure, and on the other hand, the part demanding that they demonstrate the rights”, explained Prieto Hernández. “The subastas are the mechanism of lava of these goods”. France also signed the Unidroit Convention, the Institute for the Harmonization of International Law. Finally, there is a link to Interpol to get some results. But many of these works of art have not been reported in the police organization.
Asi pues, ‘n México se le cierran las puertas. “We will not seek the collaboration with France, the friends of Mexico, but otherwise it is right to protest and to advertise”, added Prieto Hernández. Many of these important heritage assets included including 1972, we will continue to do so, but this can not be avoided, ”said the INAH anthropologist in charge.
Mexico has spent decades in the Fiscalia and the Secretariat of External Relations without much success in these launches. At least with some lands. “With the subordinates we do not normally succeed”, Prieto Hernández reconciled, but he mentioned some other cases in which the pieces were made back, for example one in Germany, where the procedure and the charge passed by the carcel. It’s from a collector of coins in Miami. For the rest it has to conform to “advancing in diplomatic and political relations”. And demand land that enters into international conventions in order to intervene in the restitution of expropriated works.
In Mexico there are “decades of miles” of archeological sites, so there is an intervention to prevent that in the future these saque new acabens in the extraterrestrial series will have effective vigilance. “We are intending to have a new police force dependent on the National Guard dedicated to guarding the heritage, so that it is collaborating with the Carabinieri in Italy, which has 50 years of experience in the matter”, said the person in charge del INAH.
Once the pieces that are known to be sub-cities are known, it is easy to determine whether they are falsely corresponding to the past “sagrado” of Mexico, debating the impossibility of accessing them. They are the specialists that a simple vista logran certify, in some cases, that are done by recent artists or craftsmen. When it comes to these cases no hooi mucho decir. Reproductions and crafts are not prohibited. “With his pan in common”, Prieto Hernández expressed colloquially with respect. “The crime is when it happens to work like ancient pieces,” he added. One of the pieces that INAH has falsified is a mask of lot 23 that is sold at a very high price and that “is a contemporary invoice, it is possible to make a decade. Ni la reclamaríamos, no es antigua ”, is the director of INAH.
The people in charge of the archeological heritage of Mexico do not like it. “It’s a big lucha, but not sterile”. “This illegitimate trade is prohibited by the right of the XVIII and even if we do not try the mode in which the territory’s salaries are treated as a Mexican heritage treaty,” the director-general said. Pero las subastas suponen una infranqueable par México.