The head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced this Tuesday that her administration will remove the statue of Christopher Columbus from the Paseo de la Reforma and will place in its place a replica of the sculpture of ‘The young woman from Amajac’, to honor to the aborigines of the North American country. “It represents women, but especially indigenous women and their struggle in the history of Mexico,” said the governor.
The prehispanic artwork was found earlier this year in the community of Hidalgo Amajac, municipality of Álamo Temapache, in the state of Veracruz. Currently, it is in the Museum of Anthropology and History of Mexico City. Experts claim that represents a possible young ruler.
So that the sculpture can be appreciated on the public highway, Sheinbaum informed that it will be sculpted a six meter replica, by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The news was released on Pluricultural Nation Day, which commemorates the date that Christopher Columbus arrived in America, claiming the previous existence of indigenous communities.
In the presentation of the project, the mayor was accompanied by members of the Committee for Monuments and Artistic Works in Public Spaces (COMAEP), the INAH, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Works of the Mexican capital.
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