After two years, the monument to Christopher Columbus will finally have a permanent place

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, head of government of Mexico City, indicated that the final site of the monument to Christopher Columbus will be the National Viceroyalty Museum, Situated in Tepotzotlan, State of Mexico.

During the Information Assembly at the town hall of Miguel Hidalgo, the president of the capital reported that a committee of indigenous women had asked what had happened to the indigenous moment that they had promised to place in the former Glorieta de Colón, the Reformation Walk.

For this reason, the warrant reported that the glorieta will live together Antimonument of Justice there there Young man from Amajac.

“Today, indigenous women from different parts of the country came to Congress in Mexico City and asked why an indigenous figure had not been placed in the old Colón roundabout, as I had promised them there. a few years, and we’re going to do that.”

Sheinbaum Pardo charged that although Christopher Columbus was an international figure credited with supposedly “discovering” America, before he arrived on the continent there were already people there. “They didn’t need anyone to find them on the contrary the invasion has come“, accused the candidate for the presidential candidacy of Morena around 2024.

While two female monuments will occupy the space now called The Glorieta of women who fight, the statue of Christopher Columbus which is in Buenavista will be transferred to a museum in the State of Mexico.

“Columbus is going to go to the Viceroyalty Museum and the Joven de Amajac will stay there at the Colón roundabout, it was an indigenous woman who was discovered on January 1, 2021, and the other figure who was placed there that it was put as an Antimonumenta, and we do it because the women have wanted to silence us for a long time, yes or no? And who else they wanted to silence, it is the indigenous women”

He assured that on the Paseo de la Reforma will be the figure of an indigenous woman, which will show that the discrimination has ended and is in against racism and classism.

The new space where the statue of Christopher Columbus will be installed was sought between the government of the capital, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the Federal Ministry of Culture.

The sculpture of discoverer de América was placed in 2021 in Buenavista, in front of the town hall of Cuauhtémoc. Initially, there were protests to have him removed, so a fence was put up around him; However, as the months passed and the pandemic took away the protection.

A year earlier, the monument had been removed from the gazebo for restoration, and the space stood empty for some time. Later, feminist groups took advantage of this to put the Antimonument.

The president’s original plan was to sculpture “Tlali”, the sculptor from the capital Pedro Reyes; However, when the coin was revealed, great controversy was generated, as citizens assured that she did not look like a native woman.

In addition, a community of Mexican artists led by Laureana Toledo and Mónica Mayer sent a letter signed by 350 people to the government of CDMX to demand the cancellation of the project led by Pedro Reyes and argued that the sculpture of indigenous women should be made by one of them.

Subsequently, the authorities confirmed that it would be the “Tlali” sculpture that would share the space of the Glorieta with the Antimonumenta, which also decided that it would not be removed after reaching agreements with the feminist collectives.