Patronato Ruta de la Amistad A.C.
(Board of Trustees for The Route of Friendship Ltd.)

It was founded in 1994 by Luis Javier de la Torre González and Javier Ramírez Campuzano in their altruistic search for restoring, conserving, and spreading knowledge about this legacy from the Cultural Olympics by inviting Embassies, and private and public institutions to participate through a trust created by the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (the National Fund for Culture and Arts) from donations and products/services in kind.

From the work done by the Board, today there are 20 restored and conserved works of art with two remaining to be rescued. From its re-adaptation, The Route of Friendship has come up with various alternative proposals: the Intervention Program,which is made up of multidisciplinary artists that give constant care to the works of art and their surroundings; Urban Ecology Action, that looks after the Jardines Nativos de Pedregal (Native Gardens of Pedregal), where the flora and fauna is being rescued and natural rainwater collectors around the sculptures are being created; and the Proyecto de Bosques Comestibles (Edible Forest Project), in the wetlands zone,where different species native to Xochimilco are sowed and harvested.

Other responsabilities of the Patronato Ruta de la Amistad A.C. include the Conservation of the heritage of the Festival Mundial de Pintura Infantil México ’68 (The 1968 World Festivalof Children’s Painting) and the editions, movies and publicity for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico.

Structure

• In Memoriam :
  Architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
  President of the Organizing Committee for the XIX Olympics, Mexico 1968 and co-creator of the Route of Friendship created by Mathias Goeritz.
  
  

• Luis Javier de la Torre González
  President and Founder of the Patronato Ruta de la Amistad A.C.
  luis@mexico68.org
  
  
• Architect Javier Ramírez Campuzano
  Vice-president and Founder
  javier@mexico68.org
  
  
• Gustavo Carvajal
  Cultural Ambassador in Nueva York
  gustavo@mexico68.org
  
  
• Carolina Borja Fernández
  Cultural Management
  carolina@mexico68.org

Embassies of the Participating Countries for The Route of Friendship:

• Embassy of the Swiss Confederation in Mexico
• Embassy of the Czech Republic in Mexico
• Embassy of Japan in Mexico
• Embassy of France in Mexico
• Embassy of the Republic of Hungary in Mexico
• Embassy of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay in Mexico
• Embassy of the Republic of Italy in Mexico
• Embassy of the United States of America in Mexico
• Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium in Mexico
• Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Mexico
• Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Mexico
• Embassy of Australia in Mexico
• Embassy of the Republic of Austria in Mexico
• Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Mexico
• Embassy of the State of Israel in Mexico
• Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco in Mexico

Institutions that Comprehensively Collaborate with The Route of Friendship:

• Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA):
  Trust for the Route of Friendship
  
  
• Betapersei:
  Webmaster & Hosting
  
  
• Zen to Zen
  Web page
  
  
• The Pedro Ramírez Vázquez Archive
  
  
• Embassies of the participating countries:
  Cultural programs and contact with companies for the collection of funds set aside for the restoration and conservation of the works of art
  
  
• Bayer MaterialScience:
  Pigments for anti-graffiti paint
  
  
• Pinturas Nervion:
  Paint
  
  
• Karcher México:
  Monument cleaning
  
  
• Government of Mexico City:
  Help in kind for the restoration and conservation of the works of art
  
  
• The municipalities of Tlalpan, Xochimilco and Coyoacan:
  Help in kind for the Restoration and conservation of the works of art
  
  
• Secretaría de Seguridad Pública:
  Protection of sculptures and their surroundings
  
  
• Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA)
  
  
• Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH)