'They Don't Take Care of Us': Anti-Rape Protests Vandalize Mexico City's Famous Angel of Independence Monument
By AMY GUTHRIE / AP August 18, 2019
(MEXICO CITY) — Workers erected a wooden wall around Mexico City’s iconic Angel of Independence monument Saturday after feminists defaced it with graffiti during a raucous protest over a string of alleged rapes by police.
The disorder Friday night erupted as part of protests that arose this week over a perception that city officials were not adequately investigating the rape accusations. Both victims were teenagers. The demonstrations have become known as the “glitter protests†after marchers doused the city’s police chief in pink glitter.
Hundreds of city workers spent the wee hours of the morning pressure-cleaning and painting over graffiti.
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Mexico City assesses damage after violent feminist protestOn the Paseo de la Reforma, this is where the vandalism occurred, they could not get up to the gold statue I assume, it was vandalism at the base of the statue:
Ãngel de la Independencia
Its official name is Monumento a la Independencia. It’s a meeting point and a starting point. While those who step foot here may not know it, they are standing on the remains of those who made this country. Before becoming the headquarters for important social protests and rallies, the monument was a mausoleum formed by a slanted zócalo, a quarry-stone column standing 35 meters high, and the statue of the Winged Victory of Samothrace at the top – designed by architect Antonio Rivas Mercado.
https://www.timeout.com/mexico-city/things-to-do/angel-de-la-independencia
I saw so-called members of the Communist or Socialist party march down that street, that was kind of exciting to see, in Mexico, one can often see murals to vote for one of the parties, exciting in those days. Now? Maybe some of the negatives actually were going on back in the day and just not reported on. I did see a somewhat fortified and helmeted armed-guard walking with a sub-machine gun near some of the more "posh" types of stores there.
