He would be risky that Chichén Itzá became wonder of the world.

Specialists of the Independent National University of Mexico (UNAM), alerted on the mediatic risks that she implies for the pre-Hispanic site Chichén Itzá, to get to become one of new the seven wonders of the world, although they were pronounced in favor of its candidacy. In interview, Louise Noelloe Gras Gas, investigator of the Institute of Aesthetic Investigations of the Maxima house of studies, said that the world-wide contest that it is made through Internet “is a mediatic question that somebody invented in some place and that it can carry problems of an excess of visitors for the zone yucateca”. It explained that the fact that Chichén Itzá appears in Internet, the television and announcements, makes be in the sight of many people who, particularly, very are not interested in the cultural patrimony of the place.
The investigator, who is member of the Mexican Committee of History of the Art and the Mexican National Committee of the Council the Monument International and Sites (ICOMOS), indicated in addition the necessity to distinguish in the aid, the historical characteristic of thousands of years of some postulantes and the monument rank of century XX of others, like the Statue of the Freedom or Torre Eiffel. “It seems to Me - she said that in these wonders one was due to do of two options, the present present wonder and wonders the past of century XX, because I believe that there is a difference between which she could survive and no longer she survived, to which we have constructed”. Some critical of the contest have argued the unequal competition in which monuments constructed hardly at the beginning of century XX or end of the XIX, look for a place like Wonders of the World, next to places like the Great Chinese Wall, the Machu Pichu in Peru or Chichén Itzá in Mexico, that count on several centuries of antiquity. For the architect and archaeologist Carlos Flores Marini, ex- president of ICOMOS Mexico, it is a “private institution” the one that decided to make the aid and “what good that a consultation became, which serves Chichén to him, is or it is not, like diffusion at world-wide level; I do not believe that the recognition is óbice for anything bad”. Nevertheless, it considered, “this promotion that is becoming of the pyramid, (of Kukulcán) yucateca would have to be made also to defend the manifestations of the traditional architecture that yes is being lost”. In as much, the Argentinean Ramon Gutiérrez, of the Center of Documentation of Latin American Architecture, said that the contest “has positive things, because it mobilizes to different cities and different countries from the patrimonial subject, that is for me the good thing”.
It alerted that “the classification that obtains one or another one, does not cause that those that are outside continue such having values that tended before the aid of the Swiss millionaire, you can compare what you want, but all of them have their values”. The results of this contest, in which 20 finalists participate, will be given to know the 7 next July in a ceremony who will be trasmitida by more than 160 television channels from Lisbon, Portugal and where they participated to figures like the tenor Jose Races, the dancer Courteous Joaquin and the ex- secretary of the UN, Kofi Annan, as well as astronaut Neil Armstrong. In the ranking it excels the exclusion of the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, that initially were in the competition, after the Supreme Council of Antiques of that country separated his site of the aid arguing who is an unequal competition with respect to the temporalidad of the constructions including.