In commemoration of the Day of the Pluricultural Nation, the mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced that the effigy of Christopher Columbus will be replaced by a replica of “The young woman from Amajac” of the Olmec culture and that it was discovered in January.
This Tuesday the mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, presented the project of the Sculpture “La Joven de Amajac”. “In accordance with the request of more than five thousand indigenous women of different cultures and peoples of the republic who gave us documents signed from their villages where they requested that instead of the monument to Columbus be the representation of an indigenous woman, “he said.
“It is a recognition of how the city and our country unfortunately (…) have a history of classism, racism, which comes from the colony. And how those who have been the most discriminated against are precisely indigenous women “Sheinbaum added about the replica that was commissioned from the National Institute of Anthropology and History. The archaeological piece was found on January 1, 2021 in Amajac, Hidalgo state, about 150 kilometers northeast of the Mexican capital.
Exactly a year ago the statue of the Genoese was removed from the square that also bears his name after activists threatened to tear it down. On the empty pedestal, feminist groups erected the silhouette of a woman with a raised fist. The space was also renamed “a place for women in struggle.”
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