MEXICO CITY.- Mariachi is the Mexican musical expression that has a great vitality within Mexico and abroad, and has been declared by UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Humanity, during the sixth reunion of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage, when it got the unanimous vote of the 24 countries that participate. With this declaratory, Mexico has seven cultural manifestations inscribed on the list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), achieved by the Mexican Government through the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA) and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) during this federal administration. Mariachi, strings music, song and trumpets was one of the 17 candidatures recommended for inscription analyzed by the Committee;