Showing posts with label Marcelo Ebrard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marcelo Ebrard. Show all posts

14.1.13

Mexican Court Rejects Aliyev Monument

Mexico’s Federal Administrative Court dismissed a complaint filed by Azerbaijan’s Embassy to prevent city authorities to dismantle and remove a statue of Azeri dictator Heydar Aliyev from a park at the center of the city, reported the Cronica newspaper.
The court’s decision paves the way for the statue’s removal.

21.10.12

Ciudad de Mexico: El gobierno de Ebrard celebra a un dictador

Leo Zuckermann

10.10.12

La estatua azerí que causa controversia en México

Juan Carlos Pérez Salazar
Pocos de los que pasan frente a la estatua, situada en la avenida Reforma de Ciudad de Mexico, le prestan atención. Sin embargo, el monumento de bronce y mármol está empezando a generar un debate que ya cobra ribetes internacionales.
 
Los que se detienen frente a la placa pueden leer que se trata de Heydar Aliyev, a quien se decribe como "un gran político y estadista, fundador de la moderna república de Azerbaiyán".
Uno de los que se detuvo a leer la placa fue el urbanista Andrés Lajous, quien contó a BBC Mundo que decidió investigar quién era Aliyev, para casi de inmediato empezar a cuestionar a través de Twitter y de su blog que la Ciudad de México tuviera un monumento dedicado a tal personaje.

Mexico row over Azeri leader Heydar Aliyev's statue

 
The latest monument in Mexico's capital was erected to commemorate the life of a man who, the plaque reads, was a "shining example of loyalty to the universal ideals of world peace."
Nelson Mandela, perhaps? Martin Luther King, maybe?
No. The life-sized bronze statue now adorning a special garden in Mexico City is of the former president of the oil-rich Azerbaijan and recipient of the Order of Lenin, Heydar Aliyev.
Described by, among others, Human Rights Watch as a leader under whom dissent was crushed, the monument to the late leader sparked increasing controversy since it was unveiled a few weeks ago.

Azerbaijan's Late President Heydar Aliyev's Monument in Mexico Confuses Mexicans

Mark Stevenson
 

The appearance of a life-size statue of Azerbaijan's "founder of the nation" on Mexico City's elegant Reforma Avenue, not far from Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and Mexico's national heroes, is raising eyebrows and protests.
The Stalin-esque, bronze statue of Geidar [Heydar] Aliyev, the late authoritarian leader of the Caucasus republic, carries a plaque calling him "a brilliant example of infinite devotion to the motherland, loyal to the universal ideals of world peace." The monument erected in late August shows Aliyev sitting in a bronze chair in front of what appears to be an enormous, white marble map of Azerbaijan.