The Mexicans decided to copy BLM, having dismantled Columbus for the sake of an Olmec idol
A monument dedicated to a woman from the Olmec tribe will appear on the site of the statue of Christopher Columbus on the main avenue of Mexico City. This was stated by the mayor of the Mexican capital, Claudia Sheinbaum, on the occasion of the International Day of Indigenous Women, celebrated on September 5, AP reports. "To them we owe ... the history of our country, of our fatherland," Sheinbaum said. According to the mayor, a new sculpture called "Tlali" will take the place of Columbus by October 12 — a public holiday in Mexico and in both Americas, dedicated to the discovery of the continent in 1492.
Last year, on the eve of this date, the statue of Columbus, erected in 1877, was removed from its pedestal on Paseo de la Reforma Avenue - allegedly for restoration. Threats from street activists looked like a more prosaic reason, at first glance: they were ready to demolish it, following the example of American like-minded people from the BLM movement, who knocked down three dozen Columbuses in the United States in the spirit of the general trend of "cancel culture".
In the framework of this trend, the figure of the discoverer of America, as well as the names of the "founding fathers" of white states in the New World, are considered as symbols of the oppression of indigenous peoples by European conquerors and, in general, as "toxic historical characters" with the help of whom "the white majority still asserts its political superiority and justifies economic inequality."
It should be said that the Mexicans, in a good half of whom Indian blood flows, have much more reason to protest against the "discovery of America" than their northern neighbours. It is no coincidence that such ideas are expressed not only by the elected mayor of the nine-million capital, but also by the president of the country Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
"This is an extremely contradictory date, leading to a clash of ideas and political conflicts," he said, for example, a year ago about the date of October 12.
We also note that not only the Indians, but also the purebred descendants of the Spanish conquistadors have long been denied the right to be considered "beneficiaries" of the conquest of the American continent: this right was staked out for ever by the Anglo-Saxons, who reduced their southern neighbours to the status of "latinos".
In addition, now in Mexico there is a kind of "revision of self-identification", associated with round numbers, among other things. This year marks the 500th anniversary of the founding of Mexico City — or, more precisely, the fall of the Aztec Tenochtitlan that stood in its place, the 700th anniversary of which the country will celebrate in four years. And on September 27, Mexico will celebrate 200 years since the victorious end of the war of independence from Spain. So the Mexicans have a very specific idea about the "burden of whites".
And yet, "the bird can be seen by its flight" — and in this case we are talking about very specific characters.
Who is Claudia Scheinbeim? The first woman and the first representative of the Jewish community as mayor of Mexico's largest city, she made a scientific career on the topics of reducing CO2 emissions, protecting the environment and "sustainable development". In the 1990s, she defended her doctoral degree at Berkeley, then studied climate change at the United Nations as part of the "intergovernmental group of experts", and who soon received the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2019, a year after winning the mayoral election, she announced a "six-year environmental plan " — with the promotion of solar water heaters, a ban on single-use plastic, etc.
We can also look at the chosen author of the sculpture “Tlali", Pedro Reyes - winner of a US State Department medal in the field of arts, comrade-in-arms of the Art of Change fellowship from the Ford Foundation, and author of the puppet show "Permanent Revolution" about Leon Trotsky, etc.
In short, no activists with ropes who lit up with the idea of "throwing Columbus off the ship of modernity" are needed here — an indoctrinated mayor and a suitable sculptor are enough. This "war with monuments", as the RUSSTRAT Institute already indicated, fully meets the globalist agenda for the destruction of national states and the erasure of the historical memory of peoples in order to create a "homogeneous humanity" capable of submitting to any, even the most absurd idea. And such a war is doubly successful when it is waged not by street protestants, but by Nobel laureates in high offices.
However, this is even more honest, because the "protest", fully supported by the ruling circles and the mainstream media, is one of the most hypocritical manifestations of the "cancel culture". The only worse thing here is that this attempt to get rid of history performed by globalised Mexicans does not make them any freer or purer, but only gives them the likeness of the "gringos" that they hate.