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What Will Alessandra Rojo Do with the Statues of ‘Che’ Guevara and Fidel Castro She Removed on Cdmx?
The controversy over the withdrawal of the statues of ‘Che’ Guevara and Fidel Castro in the Tabacalera colony continues, while the mayor of Cuauhtémoc, Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, revealed some proposals about what she plans to do with them. “Today we don’t know what to do with these statues because it’s also a political and ideological issue,” said Rojo de la Vega in an interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva. When questioned about the plan for the sta…
Interventions in the public space are not anything, nor are the names assigned to the street of towns and cities. In the capital of Mexico, however, laxity becomes evident just by taking a walk: the same for commercial stalls planted in any corner that for the hospitality businesses that invade the sidewalks without being stripped off. The statues also follow that anarchy. Antimonuments are common in the Paseo de la Reforma, one of the great art…
After the retreat by Cuauhtémoc authorities of the sculptures of Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara, who were since 2018 in San Carlos Square, in Tabacalera colony, President Claudia Sheinbaum said that “it’s wrong” the action of the mayor’s office and said that the capital’s government is coordinating in search of a relocation. “Why don’t you hand it over and put it somewhere else?” she said.
MILENIO The head of government of Mexico City, Clara Brugada, proposed to return the Bank of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to the Tabacalera colony, after it was withdrawn by the mayor's office Cuauhtémoc. Interviewed after attending the commemoration of Benito Juárez's lucid anniversary, held in Palacio Nacional, the capital's president maintained that the removal of the sculptural ensemble was carried out without compliance with the established…
The figures of Fidel Castro and the "Che" Guevara, who for seven years remained in Tabacalera Garden in the Cuauhtémoc mayor's office, are no longer there. The mayor confirmed that communist ideologies are not supported.
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