La Joven de Amajac: replica that will replace the statue of Columbus is almost ready

The president explained that the monument and its installation must be approved by the INAH.

“This area, not only because of ‘Joven de Amajac’ itself, but this area of ​​Reforma is a heritage site and everything has to be coordinated and guided by INAH,” Sheinbaum added.

The ‘Young Woman of Amajac’ is a sculpture that was found on January 1, 2021 in the community of Hidalgo Amajac, in Veracruz. It represents a young elite woman “possibly a ruler due to her posture and her attire,” according to archaeologist María Eugenia Maldonado Vite, quoted in an INAH statement.

The monument will be installed in the former roundabout of Colón, where activists and feminist groups installed the Antimonument Alive We Want Us, in which they renamed the ‘Glorieta de las Mujeres que Luchan’.

The group ‘Movimiento Amplio de Mujeres que Luchan’ has rejected on previous occasions the possibility of accepting another space and has demanded the permanence of the anti-monument, however they announced that they would have a working table with representatives of the capital’s government on August 5, of which it is not yet disclosed if they reached an agreement with the authorities.