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endure today, the economic, diplomatic, and cultural wisdom of their efforts was not without criticism. In particular, critics viewed their cultural initiatives as wasteful and part of a larger scheme of building personal projects with public money. Control of a wide range of projects was assigned
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Yoliztli Prize was open to all Spanish language writers of literature. The recognition was for collective works rather than any single work and was structured to be presented in any of the four literary genres: poetry, novels, essays, and drama.
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and its important authors — and to strengthen cultural links among
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and the presence of the
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presidency ended in
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in 1975. The lower prize amount was mostly the result of a sharp devaluation of the peso in
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for three consecutive years — 1980, 1981, and 1982 — to living
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