In Mexico, colonial ruins shattered by truck, rains

It hasn't been a good week for Mexico's colonial-era architecture

MEXICO CITY -- It hasn’t been a good week for Mexico’s colonial-era architecture. The government said Thursday that a truck driver with an over-sized load had bashed through part of an archway of a centuries-old colonial aqueduct south of Mexico City. And on Friday, heavy rains caused part of the facade of a centuries-old church to collapse in the Yucatan peninsula. All of that comes three weeks after Mexico had to send in the National Guard and police to finally stop months of private construction work that probably trashed pre-Hispanic archaeological sites in Teotihuacan. The incident late Wednesday happened when a flat-bed truck carrying what appeared to be several giant sections of concrete storm drain tried to fit under the arches of a colonial-era aqueduct in the town of Yautepec, south of Mexico City.