THE FOREIGN MINISTRY AWARDS THE 2012 GENARO ESTRADA PRIZE

On behalf of the Foreign Ministry, the Archives of Diplomatic History today awarded the Genero Estrada Prize for the best research into Mexico’s international relations to Carlos Inclan Fuentes for his work "Perote and the Nazis: The Mexican Government’s Policies of Monitoring and Surveillance of German Citizens during the Second World War, 1939-1946," registered in the undergraduate category.

At the award ceremony, held in the Foreign Ministry’s Luis Padilla Nervo auditorium, two further acknowledgements were also given: the first to Erik del Angel Landeros for his research into "The Political Comeback of Victoriano Huerta in 1915: Between the Struggle among Mexican Revolutionary Factions and the German-American Confrontation during the First World War" in the master’s degree category of expertise and the second to María de Lourdes Herrera Feria for her doctoral thesis "The Insertion of a Region in the Global Context: Puebla in the Universal Expositions of the Second Half of the 19th Century."

The ceremony began with welcoming remarks by the Director General of the Archives of Diplomatic History, Dr. Mercedes de Vega. Later, Ambassador Arturo Dager, as the Foreign Ministry’s General Counsel, stressed the importance of the prize, twelve years after its creation, saying that it encourages research into Mexico’s international relations, adds titles to the Foreign Ministry’s publications and, above all, rewards the efforts of students and researchers who bring to light valuable documents that remind us of the usefulness and relevance of primary sources and archives, such as the largest and most important one in Latin America: the Foreign Ministry’s Archives of Diplomatic History.

Ambassador Dager ended the ceremony by saying that the three winning entries deserve the attention of scholars, experts and officials because they contain valuable lessons from our history that are applicable today. He also hoped that researchers continue their fruitful collaboration and investigations into Mexico’s diplomatic history and the Foreign Ministry.