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Graffiti dreams part V
It’s time for another installment of Mexico City’s amazing street art. Previous blog entries have chronicled the pieces in Ciudad Neza and the rough and tumble area around the bus station in northern Mexico City.
Today’s graffiti selection is a tad more political - probably because it’s outside the Trotsky Museum in the Coyoacan neighborhood. The first two pieces are portraits of Leon Trotsky, who was killed in 1940 while he was hiding out in Coyoacan. The Stalinists hunted Trotsky across the globe after he was expelled from the Soviet Union. He survived an armed attack on his Coyoacan home (the famed muralist Diego Rivera originally gave him refuge), but was killed by an undercover agent with an ice pick. His home is now one of the more fascinating museums in the city (he is buried in the garden).
In recent months, a number of fine pieces have popped up on the walls around the house, particularly impressive because of the jagged and uneven surface of the rock walls. I hope you enjoy. Uncovering Mexico is going on vacation for a week, but we’ll see you at the end of May.
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