• America Mexico City will replace the statue of Columbus with that of an indigenous woman

Opponents and critics have launched a petition, circulating this Sunday, to demand that the Government of Mexico City restore the statue of Christopher Columbus on Paseo de la Reforma, the capital's main avenue.

"We Mexicans and particularly the inhabitants of the capital of the country feel

outraged and affected by the withdrawal of our historical heritage on the

pretext of repairing it, but we consider it to be a populist decision," reads the Change.org petition.

Among the people who have shared the petition, which has accumulated more than 10,000 signatures so far, are federal deputy

Margarita Zavala

and her husband, former president

Felipe Calderón,

both from the opposition National Action Party (PAN).

The claim comes after a week ago the head of the Government of Mexico City,

Claudia Sheinbaum,

announced that a statue of an indigenous woman, called "Tlali", would replace the Columbus monument, protected for a year.

The statue of Columbus has been controversial since 2020, when the Government of the capital withdrew it two days before October 12, a date that commemorates the arrival of the navigator to America, before a citizen protest that

sought to demolish the figure.

The monument dates from the 19th century and is the authorship of the French sculptor

Charles Cordier,

for which the protesters have denounced that its removal violates the "Federal Law on Monuments and Archaeological Zones" under the responsibility of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

"Therefore, we Mexican citizens demand that the head of the Executive Power of the Government of Mexico City and the INAH immediately return the statue of Christopher Columbus to its pedestal, and the stipulated sanctions be applied to the guilty or guilty", indicates the request.

President

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

celebrated last Wednesday the replacement of the statue "because it is a recognition of the cultural greatness of deep Mexico, from pre-Hispanic Mexico to its cultures."

His Government commemorates in 2021 the

500 years of indigenous resistance,

as it has renamed the anniversary of the conquest by Hernán Cortés, in addition to the 200 years of the consummation of independence.

But his opponents have branded his actions and those of the head of Government of Mexico City as

"populist",

as they reiterated in the petition this Sunday.

"It only pays attention to a minority of the population that ideologically agrees with its revisionist vision of history, without considering that the monument has nothing to do with its ideology," the text concludes.

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