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The National Lottery for Public Assistance (Lotenal), better known as the National Lottery, is the Mexican government institution in charge of carrying out legal games and draws in the country.[1]
The lottery was founded on 7 August 1770 as the Royal General Lottery of New Spain, and is committed to raising financial resources, through the sale of lottery tickets in different draws and the company works to promote the process of redistribution of a considerable part of the wealth, both in the generation of jobs, and in the delivery of more and better prizes.[citation needed]
History
New Spain Colony
In the Bourbon era, the King of Spain Carlos III and the Viceroy Marquis de Croix supported Francisco Xavier de Sarría's project to create a lottery based on those from the kingdoms of Naples and England, as well as the Netherlands, but with a more logical system, rational and simple, which was adopted a year later by European lotteries, known as Modern Lottery.[2]
The first draw of the Royal General Lottery of New Spain was held on 13 May 1771, and 10 years later, in 1781, the Viceroy Martín de Mayorga awarded the first contribution to public charity, in response to a request from Ambrosio de Llanos y Valdés, director of the Hospice of the Poor, who requested help for the institution. Viceroy Mayorga decreed that 2 percent of the lottery fund should be allocated to that institution; later, the Hospice of San Andrés also benefited.[3]
Due to its success, many other lotteries and raffles were also held in convents, parishes and schools, in order to raise resources. The Auxiliary Lottery for Public Works was founded, whose profits were used to finish the Chapultepec Castle and the reconstruction of the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Guadalupe, as well as the refurbishment of the building of Veronica's Walk (now Melchor Ocampo).[citation needed]
Independence
During the war of independence, the Viceroy Félix María Calleja instituted, in 1815, two forced lotteries, one for the capital and the other for the rest of the viceroyalty, and as a way to raise funds to fight the insurgency. Public employees were forced to buy tickets.[3]
After the consolidation of Mexico's independence, the emperor Agustín de Iturbide renamed the institution with the name of General Directorate of Lottery Income of the Empire of Mexico.[citation needed]
In 1842, a decree was published which consigned the rent of the lottery to the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos[3] and became known as the Lottery of San Carlos, which used its funding to acquire important works of art, give scholarships to students of the academy to study in Europe and bring to Mexico important teachers, among them Pelegrín Clavé for painting, Manuel Vilar for sculpting, Eugenio Landesio for landscape and Javier Cavallari for architecture; the latter, in addition to instructing his students in the classical orders of architecture, taught them basic knowledge of how to build bridges, roads and railways, because he wanted to carry out the construction of the railway.[citation needed]
Thanks to the economic success of the lottery, it was also able to support other urgent needs of the population, in a time of foreign invasions and civil wars that kept the country in a state of chronic poverty.[citation needed]
Reform
President Benito Juárez avoided all kinds of raffles and lotteries that were similar to the newly named National Lottery, except for a concession to the government of the State of Mexico in October 1870, to finance with a lottery the construction of a Mexico-Toluca railroad.[3] In the Juarista period, the National Lottery was first raised to constitutional rank. Upon the death of Juárez (July 1872), the government of President Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada granted permits for new lotteries that benefited the Lancasterian Company, one of the asylum houses for poor children and for the Hospital of San Hipólito.[3]
Porfiriato
During the government of Porfirio Díaz, the lottery collaborated with other resources for the construction of the General Hospital, the Castañeda Manicomio, and the Morisco Kiosk that represented Mexico at an international exhibition in St. Louis, Missouri. This kiosk, due to its detachable structure of cast iron, returned to Mexico and was placed on the Alameda Central where the lottery held its draws until 1908, the year in which it was moved to the Alameda de Santa María la Ribera, where it still is today.[citation needed]
Post-revolutionary Mexico
On 13 January 1915, Venustiano Carranza, Chief of the Constitutionalist Army, suspended the lottery and it wasn't until 7 August 1920 that Adolfo de la Huerta re-established it under the name of the National Lottery for Public Charity.[3]
In 1925 it left its headquarters in Donceles Street and moved to the house that was owned by Ignacio de la Torre y Mier, on Paseo de la Reforma N.º 1. It was there that a neon gas sign was used for the first time in the country.[citation needed]
In 1934 the institution moved to the old Tabacalera (home of the Count Buenavista, now the National Museum of San Carlos), and to begin building a building specifically for the National Lottery. El Moro was the first building to be built by means of an elastic flotation procedure, which was the work of engineer José Antonio Cuevas, and was inaugurated on 28 November 1946.[citation needed]
The era of television
Mexico began participating in the era of television and on 1 September 1950 the first signal of channel 4 was transmitted from the 14th floor of the El Moro building.[citation needed]
In 1960 the lottery proceeds were given to the Ministry of Health and through the Public Assistance Board they were channeled to different welfare sites, construction projects and school breakfasts.[citation needed]
In 1968, the construction of the Prisma building began on 101 Juárez Avenue, a modern building that contributed to the urban environment of the public square it is located in. It was inaugurated in 1970.[citation needed]
The National Lottery during the 1980s financially supported a plan of bringing assistance to 40 marginalized cities in the country.[citation needed]
Zodiac Draw
1 April 1984 started the Zodiac Draw with a prize of 7 million pesos in 2 series. During this time the Rosales building and the Contreras printing press were built in response to the growth of the institution and with the purpose of improving the compliance of the programs.
In 1991 the Jalisco building was inaugurated in response to the demands of modernization.[citation needed]
From October 1988 to November 2001, the National Lottery for Public Assistance presided over the Ibero-American Corporation of State Lotteries and Betting, and in 2001 Mexico occupied a seat on the board of directors of the World Lottery Association (WLA) and joined the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL).[2]
Screaming boys
For the first time, it was allowed that a group of girls be incorporated into an area that was previously restricted to just boys: the famous screaming boys of the Lottery.[citation needed]
5 January 2001 was a historic date for the National Lottery for Public Assistance because for the first time in 231 years a president of the Republic, Vicente Fox Quesada, led the celebrations of the draw.[citation needed]
The National Lottery for Public Assistance, on 12 October 2001, formalized a trust agreement with Nacional Financiera, SNC, a banking institution, to administer and invest the resources of the trust estate and allocate them to support public assistance programs.[citation needed]
From January of 2002 to June of 2004 the Public Trust of the National Lottery for Public Assistance awarded 206,220,512 pesos to 87 charities, which aimed to support 90 social assistance projects.[citation needed]
Trust termination process
With regard to the Public Trust of the National Lottery for Public Assistance, a body through which financial resources were aided to institutions during 2002 and 2003, on 22 July 2004 the granting of appeals was suspended, through the agreement of its technical committee N° CTF1a./09/04-S and is currently not in use since 2018.[citation needed]
Indirect donations to public assistance
The National Lottery for Public Assistance does not have the power to grant donations directly, and by mandate of Organic Law, in its second article, the surplus resources that the National Lottery obtains from the holding of the draws must be given in full to the Treasury of the Federation so that it can allocate the funds to public assistance.[citation needed]
Director Generals
Director Generals of the National Lottery for Public Assistance (since 1920)
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References
↑ Entre 1920 y 1936, el titular de la Lotería fue conocido como Director; de 1936 hasta los años ochenta se denominó Gerente General y, desde los ochenta, se conoce como Director General.[4]
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