▲ Arlen Rodríguez, founder of the Tepito Zona de Arte collective, accompanied a tour of the Los Palomares unit, to denounce that the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office erased representative murals of Tepito’s daily life, painted by artists from the rough neighborhood in some housing complexes.Photo Luis Castillo
From the Editorial Office
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, November 12, 2022, p. 4
In the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office, since the current administration began, headed by Sandra Cuevas, a campaign began to erase the murals from public markets – some of which dated from the 30s of the last century -, which extended to emblematic sites such as the Tepito neighborhood, contrary to the rise of colorful artistic expressions that have emerged in other parts of the city.
To the whitening
The walls of the Juárez, Martínez de la Torre and San Camilito markets, among others, were followed by the walls of the Guelatao sports complex and the Plan Tepito housing units, known as La Fortaleza and Los Palomares, where one of the creations of the artist Daniel Manrique Arias, founder of the Tepito Arte Acá movement, and for whom the rue Tepito in France.
In the brave neighborhood, the work known as The childrenby Manrique, and was replaced by a wall in relief, and two artistic expressions of the groups and residents dedicated to the queen of gambleLourdes Ruiz, on one of the fences in the common area of La Fortaleza.
▲ This damage is irreversible, and was caused with the argument that Mayor Sandra Cuevas wants to improve the urban image by imposing her colors and image everywhere.Photo Luis Castillo
the day has documented each of the cases, which have caused artists and groups such as Tepito Arte Acá to promote 11 complaints against the mayor in the Human Rights Commission of the capital for violating the cultural rights of the inhabitants of the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office.
The founder of the Tepito Zona de Arte collective, Arlen Rodríguez, pointed out at the time that muralism has been practiced for more than 50 years in Tepito in the housing units, which are privately owned, but without any dialogue between brigades of workers from the mayor’s office They have painted the walls white and prevented the murals and their phrases from being restored.
The artist Antonio Ortiz has also raised his voice Loudwho, faced with the onslaught that these artistic expressions have suffered, warned of the risk that the historic murals of the Abelardo L. Rodríguez market are running.
