CONADE

CONADE is Mexico's National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport ((Spanish) Comisión Nacional de Cultura Física y Deporte). It is the arm of the Mexican government charged with fostering and promoting physical education, recreation and sport in the country. CONADE's goals are for the population to:

CONADE's headquarters are located in Mexico City.

Escuela Nacional de Entrenadores Deportivos (National School of Sport Trainers) is a group affiliated with CONADE in charge of forming the future trainers of the country.

Its goal is to develop and provide educational services to train professional trainers in eight specialties.

Sistema Nacional de Cultura Física y Deporte (National System of Physical Culture and Sports) is a collegiate body which both represents and governs CONADE. SINADE's purpose is to direct, control and accomplish the goals established by the government and CONADE. They are represented in a Directive Council (Collegiate Body).

One of CONADE's goals is to fund athletes both for support and training, so that the athletes are better able to dedicate themselves to training.

Due to current political shifts, there has been some issues with differed funding to particular areas with a higher regard for the directors. There was an increase of 1434% of advertising budget, which equals to 13% of the total budget assigned [1]. This 13% is commonly assigned to the main television companies deeply linked with the political party of the current president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto. There has been previous discussion about the incompetence of the CONADE director who was also director of the , when Enrique Peña Nieto was governor of that state. Since the early stages of his post as director of CONADE, Castillo has had a strategy of cutting funding and making the different organisations return some of the money already spent. Despite this, some other federations such as the Amateur Boxing Federation where their participants had to ask for money on the streets to fund themselves for their different qualification competitions before Rio 2016.

CONADE is in charge of organizing the National Olympics, and the qualifying events in which athletes need to participate in order to be eligible for the National Olympics.

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