OAXACA, MEXICO.- Mexican painter, Francisco Toledo, declared that if the violence in the state escalates, deriving in total chaos, he Hill promote that the library of the Institute of Graphic Arts in Oaxaca (IAGO), the Manuel Alvarez Bravo Center for Photography, the Cine Club El Pochote, the Fonoteca Eduardo Mata and the library for the blind Jorge Luis Borges be shut down to save them from vandalism that those spaces could suffer.

The painter explained that he made the decision because "in the middle of all the confusion and delirium of these past few days, an anonymous voice was heard during a transmission made by Radio Universidad, declared that the spaces founded and supported by Toledo did not belong to the people so that these art spaces would be taken over.”

This “absurd and stupid· point of view of taking over the public spaces because, according to some people whom he did not identify, Hill be in the hands o fan elite group, “there is the possibility that the art spaces hill be shut down because there are no guarantees that the collection could be saved from vandalism, because we do not know when this tense situation will overflow”.

Alter expressing his alarm he declared that the nature of those cultural, public, pluralistic and free art spaces are for the enjoyment of the people of Oaxaca and national and international visitors. Proof of this is that in all the years the art spaces have been open they have never prevented anyone to enter even if they have to use the bathroom.