Mexico City, January 28.—Along with an auction scheduled for this Friday in Paris featuring Mexican cultural assets, Mexico has called on French auction houses to halt all sales of Mexican pieces and collaborate with the Mexican government in the investigation into their origin.
Following instructions from Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, Mexican Ambassador to France Blanca Elena Jiménez Cisneros delivered a letter addressed to the Presidency of the Drouot Group and previously to the Millon Group.
In it, she expressed concern about the aforementioned auction and noted that "Mexico reiterates its rejection of the sale abroad of Mexican pre-Hispanic cultural objects, which, under current legislation in our national jurisdiction, are the property of the Nation, inalienable and imprescriptible."
He noted that these types of sales encourage looting, plundering, illicit trafficking, and money laundering perpetrated by transnational organized crime, according to information released by the Foreign Ministry.
