La Jornada newspaper
Friday 14 October 2022, p. 32
The Mexico City government is looking for another space to place a statue of Christopher Columbus, after the office of Mayor Miguel Hidalgo refused to install it in Parque America, in Polanco.
Prime Minister Claudia Sheinbaum has indicated that the mayor’s office is now opposed to staying in that location proposed by Mexico City’s Commission on Monuments and Works of Art in Public Spaces.
Later, the mayor’s office asserted that it was wrong that they opposed it, but acknowledged that “America Park is not suitable to house him,” and suggested installing a workbench with officials from the Department of Works and Services for analysis. the topic.
In social networks, he published the official response letter addressed to the Director General of Public Works Construction, Juan Carlos Fuentes, in which he noted that the proposal to place the monument in Parque América “reduces the area of the useful area that is currently used by the community as a space for games and recreation”.
On the other hand, the president emphasized that the sculpture The young woman from Amagak It will be installed in the former Kowloon roundabout, as it is an acknowledgment of the indigenous women who have historically been silenced the most.
The idea, he said, is that anti-fraud women fighting doesn’t disappear, but another space is created. “We want to end discrimination and class and put an end to racism and what is the best way to recognize those who have not been historically recognized. This too must be recognized by all groups of women who are fighting.”
