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Anti-monuments In Mexico
In Mexico, anti-monuments (Spanish: ''antimonumentos'') are installed and traditionally placed during popular protests. They are installed to recall a tragic event or to maintain the claim for justice to which governments have failed to provide a satisfactory response in the eyes of the complainant. Many of these are erected for issues related to forced disappearances, massacres, femicides and other forms of violence against women, or any other act of violence. Concept The term ''anti-monument'' finds its genealogy in the reflections of James E. Young. After World War II, Young looked at "those devices of memory that do not seek to glorify national glory but to do a living memory work through the experiences of the victims", in contrast to the traditional monuments that exalted nationalist heroism. Young used the term ''counter-monument'' to refer to this type of expression. He exemplified this with the ''Monument Against Fascism'' (Hamburg, 1986) by Jochen Gerz and Esther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antimonumento De La Guardería ABC 02
In Mexico, anti-monuments (Spanish: ''antimonumentos'') are installed and traditionally placed during popular protests. They are installed to recall a tragic event or to maintain the claim for justice to which governments have failed to provide a satisfactory response in the eyes of the complainant. Many of these are erected for issues related to forced disappearances, massacres, femicides and other forms of violence against women, or any other act of violence. Concept The term ''anti-monument'' finds its genealogy in the reflections of James E. Young. After World War II, Young looked at "those devices of memory that do not seek to glorify national glory but to do a living memory work through the experiences of the victims", in contrast to the traditional monuments that exalted nationalist heroism. Young used the term ''counter-monument'' to refer to this type of expression. He exemplified this with the ''Monument Against Fascism'' (Hamburg, 1986) by Jochen Gerz and Esther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avenida Juárez
Avenida Juárez is a street in the Historic Center of Mexico City flanking the south side of the centuries-old Alameda Central park. Originally each block had a different name: *Calle de la Puente de San Francisco between San Juan de Letrán (today Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas) and López, in front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes *Calle de Corpus Christi, between López and Nueva (today Luis Moya) *Calle del Calvario, between Nueva (today Luis Moya) and San Diego (hoy Dr. Mora) *Calle de Patoni between San Diego (today Dr. Mora) and Rosales/Bucareli/Paseo de la Reforma During the 1940s through the 1960s it was one of the city's boulevards, lined with upscale shops and hotels. In the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, the Alameda, Del Prado and Regis hotels collapsed or were torn down. The street runs between the intersection of Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida Bucareli, marked by Sebastián's sculpture known as ''El Caballito'', and Eje 1 Central, east of which it becomes Madero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paseo De La Reforma
Paseo de la Reforma (translated as "Promenade of the Reform") is a wide avenue that runs diagonally across the heart of Mexico City. It was designed at the behest of Emperor Maximilian by Ferdinand von Rosenzweig during the era of the Second Mexican Empire and modeled after the great boulevards of Europe, such as the Ringstraße in Vienna and the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The planned grand avenue was to link the National Palace with the imperial residence, Chapultepec Castle, which was then on the southwestern edge of town. The project was originally named Paseo de la Emperatriz ("Promenade of the Empress") in honor of Maximilian's consort Empress Carlota. After the fall of the Empire and Maximilian's subsequent execution, the Restored Republic renamed the Paseo in honor of the La Reforma. It is now home to many of Mexico's tallest buildings such as the Torre Mayor and others in the Zona Rosa. More modern extensions continue the avenue at an angle to the old Paseo. To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristegui Noticias
María del Carmen Aristegui Flores (; born January 18, 1964) is a Mexican journalist and anchorwoman. She is widely regarded as one of Mexico's leading journalists and opinion leaders, and is best known for her critical investigations of the Mexican government. She is the anchor of the news program ''Aristegui'' on CNN en Español, and writes regularly for the opinion section of the periodical ''Reforma''. In March 2015, she was illegally fired from MVS Radio 102.5 FM in Mexico City following a report on the conflict of interests by then Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, with a state contractor who would have built a millionaire residence for the mandatory and his family. She manages her own news website and hosts an online morning newscast, which is also broadcast on Grupo Radio Centro's XERC-FM. Early life Aristegui was born on 18 January 1964 in Mexico City, the fifth of seven children. Her father was a Basque Spaniard who had come to Mexico as a child as a refugee from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tlatelolco Massacre
On October 2, 1968 in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City, the Mexican Armed Forces opened fire on a group of unarmed civilians in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas who were protesting the upcoming 1968 Summer Olympics. The Mexican government and media claimed that the Armed Forces had been provoked by protesters shooting at them, but government documents made public since 2000 suggest that snipers had been employed by the government. The number of deaths resulting from the event is disputed. According to U.S. national security archives, American analyst Kate Doyle documented the deaths of 44 people; however, estimates of the actual death toll range from 300 to 400, with eyewitnesses reporting hundreds dead."Human rights groups and foreign journalists have put the number of dead at around 300." Additionally, the head of the Federal Directorate of Security reported that 1,345 people were arrested. The massacre followed a series of large demonstrations called the Mexican Movement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Iguala Mass Kidnapping
On September 26, 2014, forty-three male students disappeared from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College after being forcibly abducted in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. They were allegedly taken into custody by local police officers from Iguala and Cocula in collusion with organized crime. The mass kidnapping has caused continued international protests and social unrest, leading to the resignation of Guerrero Governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero in the face of statewide protests on October 23, 2014. The students had annually commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre; police attempted to intercept several of the buses by using roadblocks and firing weapons. Details remain unclear on what happened during and after the roadblock, but the government investigation concluded that 43 of the students were taken into custody and were handed over to the local Guerreros Unidos ("United Warriors") drug cartel and probably kille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aun Nos Faltan
Aun the Old (Old Norse ''Aunn inn gamli'', Latinized ''Auchun'', Proto-Norse ''*Audawiniʀ'': English: "Edwin the Old") is a mythical Swedish king of the House of Yngling in the '' Heimskringla''. Aun was the son of Jorund, and had ten sons, nine of which he was said to have sacrificed in order to prolong his own life. Based on the internal chronology of the House of Yngling, Aun would have died late in the fifth century. He was succeeded by his son Egil Vendelcrow (''Íslendingabók'': ''Egill Vendilkráka'')the ''Íslendingabók'' gives Aun as the successor of Jörundr and the predecessor of Egil Vendelcrow: ''xv Jörundr. xvi Aun inn gamli. xvii Egill Vendilkráka'Guðni Jónsson's edition of Íslendingabók/ref> identified with Ongentheow of the ''Beowulf'' narrative and placed in the early sixth century. Ynglingatal Ruling from his seat in Uppsala, Aun was reputedly a wise king who made sacrifices to the gods. However, he was not of a warlike disposition and preferred to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antimonumenta (Guadalajara)
An '' antimonumenta'' was installed in the Plaza de Armas, in Guadalajara, Jalisco on 25 November 2020, the date commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, during the annual march of women protesting against gender violence. The sculpture is symbolically named ''Antimonumenta'' and it was inspired by the anti-monument of the same name placed in Mexico City a year prior. During the same march, feminists also installed a red bench, which was placed in front of the Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres, and symbolically renamed Plaza de Armas to Plaza Imelda Virgen, a murdered woman. The erection of an ''antimonumenta'' symbolizes the demand for justice for women who suffer from violence in the country. History and installation The ''Antimonumenta'' was installed on 25 November 2020 in the Plaza de Armas, in the historic center of Guadalajara, Jalisco. It was placed during the annual march of women protesting against gender violence on I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antimonumenta (Mexico City)
An '' antimonumenta'' was installed in front of the Palace of Fine Arts, in Mexico City on 8 March 2019, the date commemorating International Women's Day, during the annual march of women protesting against gender violence. The sculpture was symbolically named ''Antimonumenta'' and has since inspired similar anti-monuments throughout the country, including the one in Guadalajara, Jalisco and the one in Morelia, Michoacán. The erection of an ''antimonumenta'' symbolizes the demand for justice for women who suffer from violence in the country. History and installation The ''Antimonumenta'' was erected on 8 March 2019 on Juárez Avenue, in front of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City during the annual International Women's Day march of women protesting against gender violence. The installation of the structure lasted more than two hours, and it was paid for by relatives of victims of femicide, feminist collectives and civil society organizations. According to the activis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planet Symbols
A planet symbol (or ''planetary symbol'') is a graphical symbol used in astrology and astronomy to represent a classical planet (including the Sun and the Moon) or one of the modern planets. The symbols were also used in alchemy to represent the metals associated with the planets, and in calendars for their associated days. The use of these symbols derives from Classical Greco-Roman astronomy, though their current shapes are a development of the 16th century. The classical planets, their symbols, days and most commonly associated planetary metals are: The International Astronomical Union (IAU) discourages the use of these symbols in modern journal articles, and their style manual proposes one- and two-letter abbreviations for the names of the planets for cases where planetary symbols might be used, such as in the headings of tables. The modern planets with their traditional symbols and IAU abbreviations are: The symbols of Venus and Mars are also used to represent female and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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