Venezuela and Mexico sign agreement for reading in Our America

Published at: 17/10/2025 09:43 AM

To undertake, together with other Latin American countries, a campaign to promote reading in Our America, through the “25 of 25” Collection, which provides for the free distribution of titles by Latin American authors among young people aged 15 and 30, the Ministry of Popular Power for Culture of Venezuela and its affiliated entities, the National Book Center (CENAL) and Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana; f signed an agreement with the Fund of Economic Culture of Mexico.

This was reported by the Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, through his Telegram channel, in which he highlighted his meeting with the general director of the Fund for Economic Culture of Mexico, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, for the signing of the agreement, during his visit to that country.

“With the approval of President Nicolás Maduro, we have come to Mexico City to sign an agreement between institutions of the Ministry of Popular Power for Culture of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Fund for Economic Culture of Mexico in order to undertake, together with other Latin American countries, the most ambitious campaign to promote reading in Our America through Collection 25 of 25,” he said.

Villegas thanked the general director of the Fund for Economic Culture and his entire team for the initiative, which is perfectly aligned with the new policy of promoting reading and writing instructed by President Maduro.

He also reported that they have planned “the launch of the collection simultaneously in 14 publishing nodes in Latin America next December.”

For his part, the general director of the Fund for Economic Culture of Mexico, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, indicated that “it is a collection of books by Latin American authors that brings together the best of the production of the middle of the last century under the idea of sending books that they were not reading to young people.”

CENAL/Mazo News Team