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The new director of the prestigious Fund of Economic Culture (FCE), novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo II, promised today that it will turn the Mexican publishing house into a "popular editorial" that will lower prices and bring literature to neighborhoods.
"We want to reach the last rancherias of this country," said at a press conference the writer and activist who took over the editorial speech last Friday.
Taibo II, very close to the president Andrés Manuel López Obradorexplained that the hundreds of bookstores available to the Fund will cease to be "closed spaces" and will go to "camellones" (central sidewalk), popular activities, neighborhoods and tianguis (flea markets).
The new editorial board will promote campaigns to encourage reading, reduce prices and will acquire genres that he did not distribute until now in the form of science fiction books or detective novels.
"With what money are we going to do it? I think it's a wonderful question but I still do not know, we'll do it or we'll die trying," he said.
For the time being, promised to reduce salary by 40% and put an end to unnecessary spending: "We will not spend money on badtails, we will put cheap and wonderful books."
In addition, Taibo II wishes to stop importing books from foreign publishers and publish them in Mexico in order to reduce their production and prices, which "is not a minor problem".
"How can we ask a single person to spend 300 pesos ($ 15.6) for a book while he's scratching his pocket to pay for a cake (a sandwich) and a transport?", Asked the new responsible for the organization.
Despite the economic losses suffered by some bookstores of the Fund, Taibo II has promised "for the Virgin of Guadalupe" that will not close one, but "will adapt to the reality" of its environment. "Some do not work because they sell university material outside the universities," he said.
Criticized that his predecessors at the head of the state editor "were not readers" and were destroying books that were not sold, so he decided that "that burns books is a minor figure. "
"I do not think that the books of (ex-presidents) Miguel de la Madrid and Vicente Fox have many readers, but here we will not destroy a book, not even the most abominable", a- he quipped.
López Obrador named Taibo II in the midst of a huge controversy, knowing that the writer was celebrating the legal reform that allowed him to make fun of the opposition with the following sentence: "We put it folded".
With a humorous tone, he responded to this controversy today by stating that "a left without sense of humor would be a right".
Taibo II (Gijón, 1984), son of the same writer, Paco Ignacio Taibo, emigrated with his family when he was ten years old, when he was under Franco dictatorship, in Mexico, where he was naturalized in 1984.
A writer known for his detective story, he has written about 80 books, served as a cultural promoter, participated in the creation of the Semana Negra literary contest in Gijón, and received several awards, including the 1986 National History Award in Mexico. EFE
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