Statue of Miguel Alemán Valdés
Mexico City, Mexico
Date of Incident: 1968

Former President of Mexico, Miguel Alemán Valdés oversaw the completion of the new national universty’s campus, including the design and building of University City in Pedregal, in the southern Federal District of Mexico City. In the 1940s, El Cachorro de la Revolucion commissioned a statue of Miguel Alemán, which was placed at the center of the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) campus and unveiled by Alemán himself. During the student protests of 1968, a student, possibly Oscar Contreras Lartique, climbed the statue and destroyed it with dynamite.

Sources
http://www.ajweberman.com/nodules2/nodulec16.htm
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/jfkinfo/hscv3.htm
Earl Shorris, The Life and Times of Mexico (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004) pg 322.


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