ROUTES OF MEXICO
XIX INCOSAI
Congress Informative Magazine Mexico City
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• Modern SAIs’ first antecedent
And its creator, the first King of France
Towards 1190 a. C., Phillip Augustus the 2nd brought
in an edict through which the creation of the
most antique public accounting-check institution
was ordered: the Accounting Court of France.
Phillip the 2nd of France was the seventh king
of the Capetos Dynasty, and his mandate went
from 1180 to 1223. He was the first sovereign
in holding the title of King of France (suppressing
the one of “king of the franks”).
He obtained imposing military victories and
policies which molded the world as we know it
today. This is his history.
• Luis Barragán
Mexico’s modern architecture
Declared as World Humanity’s Heritage, and
open to public visits, Luis Barragán House
is an example of the most outstanding architectonical
movement of Mexican modernity. Just as the Capuchinas
Chapel, Satélite Towers or Gilardi House,
Luis Barragán’s architecture dazzles
its viewers with the fine and harmonious use of
silences and spaces, of light and stopped time.
• The language of diplomacy and science
A trip over French
In 1539 it was established as France’s official
language, through the Villers-Cotterêts
edict. Shortly afterwards a century, Cardinal
Richelieu sponsored the foundation of the French
Academy, originated in the year 1634.
Spread over today along the five globe’s
continents, French descends from the spoken
Latin and from the Frank Tongue. In its formation
process it has incorporated Greek, Arab, German
and English influence, among others. This brought
to the language of diplomacy and science in
the 16th and 17th centuries.
• Mexico’s coins and bills
History of an iconography
The great acceptance that Mexican bills possess
in the numismatic international context has a
wide tradition and a history which has accompanied
the most decisive moments of Mexican nation’s
development.
In 1969 the Bank of Mexico’s bills factory
began its activities with the most advanced
technological support of its epoch, and in accordance
to designs and iconographies never seen before.
• Henri “le Douanier”
Rousseau
An unlucky accountant with great talent
Born in the middle of the 19th century in Laval,
Henri Rousseau had a life not free from restlessness
and economical misfortunes. The world of public
administration and arts were melted in his melancholic
personality. Today he is considered as one of
the most important painters of modernity, and
the highest exponent of naïf movement.
• Huitlacoche
Mexican caviar’s unique flavor
The Ustilago maydis has grown in corn’s cobs
since Prehispanic times, and from those days it
already took part of Mexican diet.
Its unequalable taste has been outstood by
the world’s most prestigious gastronomical
magazines. It has been named “Mexican truffle”
and “Mexican caviar”, and the same
in tacos or quesadillas, soups or crepes, huitlacoche
is today a saucer which cannot be missing in
a good Mexican food table.
• In November…
The day of the dead, millenary celebration
In such regions as Tláhuac, Xochimilco,
Mixquic, Pátzcuaro or Cuetzalán,
among many others, The Day of The Dead festivity
takes place every year in November. There, a deep
communion with the antique Prehispanic traditions
is carried out.
Proclaimed in 2003 by the UNESCO as a Masterpiece
of Humanity’s Oral and Nonmaterial Work,
the Day of The Dead is still valid in Mexican
culture of the 21st century.
• Current events
Recently …
---After 12 years the remolding works in the
relevant Mayan city of Calakmul have been concluded.
It now opens its doors to its visitors.
---Scientists of the UNAM finished and delivered
a particle detector that will be incorporated
to the ALICE project, the most important experiment
in Physics in humanity’s history.
---The first volume of the Complete Works of
the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes was presented
in Spain, under the title of Mexican Foundations.
---Aguascalientes state origins a museum without
any parallels in the world, through the Death
National Museum. The collection includes nearly
1, 500 pieces.
---The Mexican Academy of Sciences’ president
was elected co director of the InterAmerican
Network of Academies of Science (IANAS), created
to impel the cooperation of the scientists associations
from all American Continent.
---UNESCO registered the University City in
the list of the World Humanity Heritage, so
that UNAM and Mexico’s modern architecture
demonstrate once again the significant contributions
they have given to the world’s cultural
scope.
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