Requiem for a Deserted Art City: “Destroy Was Unnecessary. I Feel Powerless”

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Alejandro Gómez, 28, has been demonstrating for more than two weeks against the demolition of the so-called City of Arts in Tepic, the capital of Nayarit State. The young artist who is dedicated to calistenia has climbed the buildings of the cultural center like a spider man to prevent their destruction and to demand the governor Miguel Ángel Navarro, of Morena, to reverse his plans to build in the place a football stadium for a city that does n…