Mexico City bids adiós to monument to Castro and ‘Che’ Guevara

Mexico City – Goodbye, Fidel.

Patient la vista, che.

Fidel Castro, two revolutionaries in the Mexican capital, and Ernesto greeted the sudden abolition of a controversial monument that commemorated Guevara.

According to historians, a pair of bronze, Castro and Guevara’s life -sized sculptures remember a moment that resulted in the history of Mexico and Cuba, the first meeting of the couple in the history of Mexico and Cuba.

At that time, both of them were twenty -one militants in the shaping stages of the transformation of leftist icons that would inspire global generation revolutionaries and activists.

In 2017, a leftist Mexico City government founded in a small park in the capital’s Colonia Tabacalera neighborhood, and first met in a close -up Cold War match between many people on the left.

In two sculptures, both men look straight and lightweight warfare (an immortal appearance on T-shirts around the world) and Castro’s cover of a warrior. His legs crossed, Castro holds a cigar in his left hand and a book on his right. Guevara’s right hand provides a pipe.

The sculpture has long been causing polemics: Although the supporters of the left were often applauded and some visitors would leave flowers, critics attacked the work of art as an unpleasant temple of a bloody communist dictatorship.

The center of the capital, which pioneered the abolition of Wednesday, was Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, the head of the conservative district of the Cuauhtémoc region. ENCENTRO or encounter).

Rojo de la Vega’s decision on social media initially was based on legality, not politics. He said that there was no “single paper oluşmak that allows the installation of the monument. He added that the abolition will allow the residents to wander around “freedom and security ..

He published two figures from the counter and the images of city workers in which Bronzed Castro and Guevara were shot in a bulldozer.

However, the district president later returned to a more ideological reason.

Rado said to Formula, “This city cannot introduce or refuge in Mexico or for the rest of the world, or shelter the figures that injure human dignity.”

As for the fate of the dual bronze, the authorities said that they could think of a sales for park care by using income from the left -handed buyers, probably fascinated by the Cuban uprising.

“If we open them auction, the first will point – the communists will use their Money is not someone else, Rojo Rojo de la Vega said. If they love them very much, they can put them in their gardens or verandas. “

There was Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexica’s leftist president Claudia Sheinbaum, and Claudia Sheinbaum, who said he would talk to Mexico City Mayor to place the monument anywhere else.

The question, not in which the two heroes embraced and embrace their views, argued to journalists on Thursday, Sheinbaum. The encounter of the Castro-Che match, the president, said that he remembered a “historical moment çıkan that emerged in Mexico and deserves a memory show.

The contradictions here reflect the spats in the United States about the monuments that glorify the confederation generals: critics exhibit exhibitions as exaltation traitors and white superiority, and others argue that the sculptures just reflect the history.

In case of similarities of Castro and Guevara, Sheinbaum claimed that their abolition was a partisan repayment for their signed monumental prevention.– A virtual symbol of the city.

As the Mayor of Mexico City, Sheinbaum ordered the removal of a rising bronze of Christopher Columbus, who has been decorating a pedestal in the capital’s elegant Paseo de la Reformha for more than a century. Stylized Tableau described Columbus as a noble conqueror: one hand was removed on the horizon and the other lifted a veil from one sphere.

Domestic activists and others have organized protests in sculpture for years, and columbus and others are labeling conquest As genocide perpetrators. In 2020, Sheinbaum finally ordered the removal of the Columbus Monument for renovation; He never returned to his supreme sea.

Ejection, both Columbus’ fans and the monument as an integral sign of the Mexican capital, angered others. They accuse Sheinbaum of bending political accuracy.

The traffic circle that Columbus Long lending the existence of the existence was renamed with women fighting the intersection, a collection point that lifted handwritten banners for local, feminist and other protesters.

The Grandose Columbus figure remains open to the public in the museum warehouse.

Castro -Guara Bank, which is located in a park that is easy to miss, did not compare the dimension or importance with the rising Columbus of Çık Paseo de La Reformha. But its abolition illuminated social media– Revive historical hostilities.

César Huerta, a left-wing journalist, wrote the action as “ideological censorship ,, the intention to erase the symbols of humanity-kuba humanity, X.

A radio commentator José Luis Trueba Lara offered Guevara a good salvation, called a “good press assassin” and Castro as “blood confusion dictator”.

Carlos Bravo Regidor, a columnist, said to the left because he is more concerned and said, “The retirement of some miserable statues of Fidel and El Che More than the misery experienced by those living under the yoke of the Cuban dictatorship. “

During the 1955 match with Guevara, Castro, 28 -year -old Castro did not last longer than Cuba prison for a rebellious attack against the US -backed Cuban dictatorship.

Guevara, who was a year younger than a year, was a doctor of a middle-class Buenos Aires and a Pan-Latin American Socialist Union.– “Imperialism” from us is free. Historians say that the revolutionary project has been shot immediately by starting a lifetime of friendship and cooperation.

Both would be among the 82 warriors in Granma, both in November 1956, from the Gulf Coast of Mexico to Cuba. Their journeys and subsequent guerrilla campaigns would result in a historical overthrow of Batista in 1959 and the implementation of a communist government in Havana.

Fidel and El Che It has already gone and the Cold War book has officially closed more than a quarter century. However, as the fiery debate about a humble bench statue shows here, the ideological error lines of the Cold War are far from being completely concealed, not at least in Latin America.

Special reporter Cecilia Sánchez contributed to Vidal.