{"id":4091,"date":"2019-06-19T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/sen-merkley-of-oregon-wants-smithsonian-to-drop-sackler-name-from-museum\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:39","slug":"sen-merkley-of-oregon-wants-smithsonian-to-drop-sackler-name-from-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/sen-merkley-of-oregon-wants-smithsonian-to-drop-sackler-name-from-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"El senador Merkley de Oreg\u00f3n quiere que el Smithsonian elimine el nombre de Sackler del museo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-elm-loc=\"1\">Para aumentar la creciente indignaci\u00f3n por el papel de la familia Sackler en la crisis de opioides, un senador quiere que el Smithsonian elimine el nombre Sackler de su museo de arte asi\u00e1tico, diciendo que la familia detr\u00e1s de la compa\u00f1\u00eda farmac\u00e9utica que produce OxyContin &quot;no tiene lugar en los museos financiados por los contribuyentes&quot;. Instituciones p\u00fablicas.&quot;<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\">El senador Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) envi\u00f3 una carta el mi\u00e9rcoles al nuevo secretario del Smithsonian,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/museums\/smithsonian-names-lonnie-bunch-iii-as-new-secretary-the-first-african-american-in-the-top-spot\/2019\/05\/27\/eda5138c-80a2-11e9-9a67-a687ca99fb3d_story.html?utm_term=.0f590670ffa7\">Manojo de Lonnie<\/a>, solicitando que la instituci\u00f3n elimine el nombre Sackler de la Galer\u00eda de Arte Arthur M. Sackler. La medida se produce a ra\u00edz de miles de demandas que afirman que miembros de la familia Sackler estuvieron personalmente involucrados en pr\u00e1cticas de marketing enga\u00f1osas en la empresa farmac\u00e9utica familiar Purdue Pharma.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"3\">&quot;La familia Sackler enganch\u00f3 a miles de estadounidenses al OxyContin mediante t\u00e1cticas de marketing agresivas y enga\u00f1osas y se benefici\u00f3 de una de las crisis de salud p\u00fablica m\u00e1s mort\u00edferas de nuestro pa\u00eds&quot;, escribi\u00f3 Merkley. \u201cLes pido que eliminen el nombre de la galer\u00eda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"5\">Merkley dijo en una entrevista que el llamado a eliminar el nombre de Sackler fue motivado por electores que describieron \u201cla carnicer\u00eda que estas drogas han causado en nuestro estado\u201d, as\u00ed como la divulgaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica de documentos de las demandas. A principios de este mes, Merkley present\u00f3 un proyecto de ley para aumentar dr\u00e1sticamente los fondos para el tratamiento de opioides imponiendo tarifas a las compa\u00f1\u00edas farmac\u00e9uticas.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"6\">&quot;Se han hecho p\u00fablicos varios correos electr\u00f3nicos que arrojan nueva luz sobre cu\u00e1n agresiva y destructiva fue la familia al crear esta crisis&quot;, dijo, se\u00f1alando que Richard Sackler, ex presidente de Purdue, impuls\u00f3 una estrategia de relaciones p\u00fablicas que culpaba a las v\u00edctimas de sus adicciones. \u201cEsto es algo horrible. Estamos hablando de las decisiones que contribuyeron a la muerte de decenas de miles de personas\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"6\"><span>La carta de Merkley llega en medio de una creciente reacci\u00f3n contra la familia Sackler, que ha apoyado museos culturales y educativos de alto perfil, individual y colectivamente, durante m\u00e1s de 50 a\u00f1os. El nombre Sackler aparece en el Museo Metropolitano de Arte, el Guggenheim, el Louvre, el Tate y los museos Victoria y Albert, y en universidades como Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Tufts y Yale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"9\">Desde hace m\u00e1s de un a\u00f1o, activistas encabezados por el fot\u00f3grafo Nan Goldin protestan en algunas de estas instituciones para poner de relieve el origen de la riqueza de la familia y las consecuencias de la crisis. Seg\u00fan los Centros para el Control y la Prevenci\u00f3n de Enfermedades, en 2017 hubo m\u00e1s de 70.200 muertes por sobredosis de drogas. Alrededor del 68 por ciento involucraba un opioide.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"10\">Los activistas han presionado a las instituciones para que eliminen el nombre de Sackler y rechacen futuras donaciones. Varios han respondido, incluido el&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/museums\/citing-opioid-ties-the-met-says-it-will-no-longer-accept-gifts-from-the-sackler-family\/2019\/05\/15\/e66ac2d8-7742-11e9-b7ae-390de4259661_story.html?utm_term=.fa25aeb75481\" title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\">Museo Metropolitano de Arte, que el mes pasado sigui\u00f3 el ejemplo<\/a>de las galer\u00edas Tate y la National Portrait Gallery de Londres y del Museo Guggenheim de Nueva York, al afirmar que ya no aceptar\u00edan regalos de la familia Sackler.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"12\">La solicitud de Merkley se produjo el tercer d\u00eda del mandato de Bunch como decimocuarto secretario del Smithsonian. El momento fue una coincidencia, dijo el senador, aunque dijo que esperaba que el nuevo liderazgo de la instituci\u00f3n tomara medidas diferentes.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"13\">Bunch no hizo comentarios el mi\u00e9rcoles, pero una portavoz del Smithsonian dijo que pronto responder\u00eda a Merkley por carta. En el pasado, la instituci\u00f3n dijo que no planeaba cambiar el nombre ni devolver ning\u00fan regalo de la familia.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"14\">Merkley dijo que el apoyo federal al Smithsonian (recibe alrededor de dos tercios de su presupuesto anual de $1.500 millones del Congreso) significa que tiene una responsabilidad sobre sus operaciones.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"15\">&quot;Pero quisiera enfatizar que cualquier museo que tenga el nombre de Sackler deber\u00eda convocar a su junta directiva ma\u00f1ana para discutir si debe eliminarlo&quot;, a\u00f1adi\u00f3.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"16\">La indignaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica est\u00e1 dirigida a toda la familia, lo que los descendientes de Arthur M. Sackler consideran injusto. Los hermanos Arthur, Raymond y Mortimer Sackler compraron la peque\u00f1a empresa farmac\u00e9utica Purdue Frederick en 1952, y Raymond y Mortimer compraron un tercio de las acciones de Arthur despu\u00e9s de su muerte en 1987. Purdue Pharma se form\u00f3 en 1991. OxyContin apareci\u00f3 en el mercado en 1995.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"17\">En 1982, Arthur Sackler don\u00f3 1.000 objetos con un valor estimado de $50 millones al Smithsonian, junto con $4 millones para un museo que los albergara. La Galer\u00eda Arthur M. Sackler abri\u00f3 sus puertas en 1987, cuatro meses despu\u00e9s de la muerte de su hom\u00f3nimo. La galer\u00eda subterr\u00e1nea est\u00e1 adyacente a la Galer\u00eda de Arte Freer.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"18\">Ninguna de las demandas actuales nombra a Arthur Sackler ni a sus descendientes, dijo una portavoz de su viuda, Jillian Sackler.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding fuel to the growing outrage over the Sackler family&rsquo;s role in the opioid crisis, a senator wants the Smithsonian to remove the Sackler name from its Asian art museum, saying the family behind the drug company that produces OxyContin &ldquo;has no place in tax&shy;payer-funded public institutions.&rdquo; Sen. 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