Alejandra Frausto Guerrero, Mexico’s secretary of culture, demanded in a post on the social media site X on Tuesday that the Artemis Gallery in Louisville “stop the sale of pieces that belong to the cultures of Mexico.”
Mexico’s first lady, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, also sounded the alarm over Thursday’s auction, writing in Spanish in a post on X that the pieces were “illegally stolen from our territory.”
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The López Obrador’s administration launched a campaign to reclaim stolen cultural goods in 2018. But Mexican archaeologists say there are bigger problems.