Che, Fidel and Christopher Columbus

Che, Fidel and Christopher Columbus

Interventions in public spaces are not things to be taken lightly, nor are the names assigned to the streets of towns and cities. In Mexico City, however, the laxity is evident just by taking a stroll: the same applies to the commercial stalls scattered in every corner as to the hospitality businesses that invade the sidewalks without a care in the world. Statues also adhere to this anarchy. Anti-monuments are common on Paseo de la Reforma, one of the city’s main thoroughfares. These are symbols that people place overnight in memory or vindication of painful causes, such asfemicides, the deaths of children in a school fire, or the miners who were buried underground in an accident. No one dares to remove them because no one had done justice to these victims before. It is understandable.

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