Tijuana a 'Launching Point' for Mexican Culture Sandra Dibble - The San Diego Union-Tribune
go to original February 16, 2013

The new director of Tijuana's Cultural Center, Pedro Ochoa, in suit and red tie, shares a word on Friday with Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, head of Mexico's National Center for Culture and the Arts following a ceremony that drew dozens of members of the arts community. (Cecut)

TIJUANA — Mexico’s top cultural official on Friday pledged increased efforts to promote his country’s culture in the United States, and said one of the key launching points will be the Tijuana Cultural Center.

Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, who took over in December as head of the National Council for Culture and the Arts, said he is working with Mexico’s foreign ministry to project “the best of our country,” through the arts, adding that the Tijuana-San Diego region could achieve “some of the top results.”

Tovar was at the cultural center, known as Cecut, to attend the formal presentation of the center’s new director, Pedro Ochoa Palacio, a 54-year-old Tijuana native who most recently served as cultural attache at the Mexican Consulate in San Diego.

In the audience were numerous artists, dancers, playwrights, actors, classical musicians, writers, cultural promoters, and others who greeted Ochoa’s entrance with a standing ovation. Also present was a small San Diego cultural contingent that included Rob Sidner, director of the Mingei International Museum.

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