Antimonumento +65
An antimonumento (English: anti-monument) was installed near the Mexican Stock Exchange Building, on Paseo de la Reforma Avenue, in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City. The work included the installation of the number 65 along with the plus sign to honor the sixty-five miners that died during the 19 February 2006 Pasta de Conchos mine disaster in San Juan de Sabinas Municipality, Coahuila. Only two bodies were recovered as of 2018. Protesters installed the anti-monument during the afternoon of 18 February 2018—the eve of the twelfth anniversary of the disaster—as a plea for justice for the collapse and for justice for the government's inaction. The artwork was never given an official name, and those who installed it referred to it simply as Antimonumento; because of its physical characteristics, it is known as Antimonumento +65, although it is known by other names. The plus symbol in the sculpture is engraved with the names of the victims, coupled with the phrase A una voz, ¡rescate ya! (English: "With one voice, rescue now!"). The plus symbol also carries the meaning of honoring other miners who died under similar circumstances. The following year, the demonstrators placed a metal cage with sixty-three helmets buried in coal mined from a Coahuila mine behind the main sculpture.
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Avenida Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City
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| N 19.428925 ° | E -99.164275 ° |
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Antimonumento 65
Avenida Paseo de la Reforma
06500 Mexico City
Mexico City, Mexico
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