Christopher Columbus Statue In Mexico City To Be Replaced With 1 Honoring Indigenous Women

The Columbus statue will be moved to a less prominent location in a small park.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Christopher Columbus is getting kicked off Mexico City’s most iconic boulevard. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the Columbus statue on the Paseo de la Reforma, often a focal point for Indigenous rights protests, would be replaced by a statue honoring Indigenous women. “To them we owe ... the history of our country, of our fatherland,” she said.