Source:WTL photo in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Mexico, D.F.
Image and Comments: This monument commemorates the massacre of about 400 students by the Mexican army in October, 1968. In the background is the Church of Santiago, which was built in the sixteenth century by the Spanish with Mexican labor and using stones from the destroyed tlatelolca temples. On October 2, 1968, a few days before the opening ceremonies of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, hundreds of people were demonstrating against government policies in this plaza. At night the army and other supporters of government repression opened fire on the demonstrators. The next morning the plaza was cleared of bodies and scrubbed clean as if nothing at all had happened. However, news of the massacre spread around the world. It took Mexican political institutions three decades to begin responding to the grievances expressed in the demonstration that took place here.
For a close-up of the bottom part of this monument, see: => Tlatelolco #8a.
Question: What relationship do you see between this monument and pre-Columbian stellæ? Hint: see: <= Mayan Art #1.