The president of the National Council for Culture and the Arts did a presentation:” Mexico: global cultural power "at the TEC Monterrey Campus in Mexico City where she reported on the current cultural activities in the country.
"I realize that unlike the last century, there is a huge proposition by educational institutions to train young people for cultural management. I believe that is a huge advance, to professionalize those that will be in charge of the institutions of a country whose cultural heritage deserves it' she explained.
In 2010, a survey commissioned by Banamex, posed a question what is considered to have been the main achievement Mexico in 200 years of independence. This was also to celebrate that 2010 marked the bicentennial of the beginning of the struggle for the independence in Mexico.

"Mexicans appreciate our culture and art almost more than anything”, she recalled, and noted that Mexico is home to the International Guadalajara Book Fair (FIL), the most important in the Spanish language and now regarded as the world's third after the book fairs of Frankfurt, Germany and London, England.

The International Festival Cervantes (FIC) is among the most important in the world along with the Edinburgh and Salzburg. It is one of those with most international impact and one of the most coveted by artists. "We will soon inaugurate this festival and hopefully you could go one weekend," said Sáizar.
She also mentioned that Mexico City is the third city in the world with the largest installed theatre capacity, after New York and London, and told the students gathered in the auditorium of the campus that she is convinced that "the best theatre in Spanish language is made in Mexico. "

She recalled that with 31 sites, Mexico is number one in America and number six in the world by the number of World Heritage sites of UNESCO. "The first is Italy followed by Spain, China, France and Germany. Mexico is responsible with the archeological discoveries and their maintenance.

The National Film Archives, she added, is the largest and most visited in the world. It received 600,000 attendees last year. The International Film Festival is held in the building as "sort of parallel to the university training that cannot be ignored", she said.
In addition, she said that the Cinematographic Training Center (CCC) is one of the top 25 film schools in the world and the most important in Latin America, and on the issue, stressed that international film festivals in Morelia and Guadalajara are among the top 20 worldwide.

Then she talked about the National Museum of Anthropology and History, and assured it is among the 10 largest in the world, "because it is the perfect setting for a truly exceptional archaeological heritage. When you go there it seems that time has stopped inside that majestic building that guards our history.”

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