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QuoteMexico City to swap Columbus statue for one of indigenous woman[...]Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said the bronze likeness of Columbus would be moved to a park and a statue of an Olmec woman would take its place.[...]She said that relocating the statue was not an attempt to "erase history" but to deliver "social justice".Ms Sheinbaum said that the Columbus statue "would not be hidden away" but that the civilisations which existed in Mexico before the Spanish conquest should receive recognition.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-58462071I'm not sure why they chose an Olmec statue when they have nothing to do with Mexico City. They could have made the statue a citizen of Teotihuacan instead...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan(Also, Mexico City won't be fully decolonized until someone named Sheinbaum isn't the mayor!)
Mexico City to swap Columbus statue for one of indigenous woman[...]Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said the bronze likeness of Columbus would be moved to a park and a statue of an Olmec woman would take its place.[...]She said that relocating the statue was not an attempt to "erase history" but to deliver "social justice".Ms Sheinbaum said that the Columbus statue "would not be hidden away" but that the civilisations which existed in Mexico before the Spanish conquest should receive recognition.
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was born to a secular Jewish family in Mexico City.[4] Her father's Ashkenazi parents emigrated from Lithuania to Mexico City in the 1920s; her mother's Sephardic parents emigrated there from Sofia, Bulgaria, in the early 1940s to escape the Holocaust.