FCE USA is the foreign branch of Mexican publishing house Fondo de Cultura Económica

Fondo de Cultura Económica

Fondo de Cultura Económica is the most important publishing house in Mexico and one of the most important ones in Latin America. It was originally established in 1934 by Daniel Cosío Villegas as a way to provide students of economics with books in Spanish on the subject...

 in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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Established on September 7, 1990, the branch of Fondo de Cultura Económica in San Diego, California, is ever expanding with the mission of promoting and broadcasting the works of Mexican

Mexican people

Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 and Latin American authors among the population of Hispanic

Hispanic

Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...

 origin in the United States.

In order to augment its presence in the USA, FCE USA signed an agreement with Lectorum-Scholastic for the distribution and commercialization of books among the latter’s library and school networks.