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ON A FRIDAY NIGHT in August 2019, Mexico City’s Angel of Independence received a makeover. The statue, long a meeting place for football fans and political protesters alike, was covered in neon-pink, green, and purple graffiti. Before, the inscription on the base of the bronze statue of a child and lion who symbolize, according to the architect Antonia Rivas Mercado, “the Mexican people, strong during war and docile during peace” read, La nación a los héroes de la independencia (The Nation to the Heroes of Independence). The black spray paint that occluded the inscription in August 2019 reads,

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