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Montezuma Penacho vs. Hernán Cortés The President has demanded that the Austrian government return the Montezuma Shame on several occasions (SRE / Cuartoscuro)
While national deputies demanded that Austria return the Montezuma Penacho, the SRE recovered an original painting from the Conqueror
More than 500 years later, the Conquest’s wounds remain open. In the same week that Mexican deputies demanded that Austrian deputies return the Montezuma plume, the Ministry of Foreign Relations (SRE) reported that a descendant of Hernán Cortés gave Mexico a painting made to the Spanish conqueror.
Delivery of the box Hernán Cortés was held on February 16 at the Mexican Consulate General in San Francisco, California, which was donated by Tatiana Nicoletta Pignatelli Aragona Cortés, one of her descendants.
“ The Government of Mexico thanked Pignatelli Aragona Cortés the voluntary delivery of this painting, which will be under the protection of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), for its analysis, care, conservation and dissemination ”, the secretariats of Foreign Relations and Culture reported in a joint statement.
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“ It is an oil on canvas that, for several generations, was part of the private collection of Hernán Cortés’ family, who appears in profile wearing half armor, as a testimony of the viceregal era, a crucial period in the history of Mexico ”, adds the SRE.
The donation of this work is a new achievement that is given thanks to the joint efforts of the secretariats of Foreign relations and of Culture, and INAH. It constitutes an example of international good practices to contribute to the conservation of Mexican historical elements and the awareness of citizens about the importance of preserving cultural identity of our nation.
Moctezuma Penacho hologram, the only option for Mexicans
During an official visit by the Austrian Parliament to Mexico, the senator of Citizen Movement, Alejandra León Gastélum requested the return of Penacho de Moctezuma to Mexico. His request was based on the belief that current technologies could avoid damage during the transfer of this historic piece; however, the Austrian team suggested presenting it as a hologram.
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5 times the history in the AMLO government has been changed
Last November, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would propose changing the name of the Sea of Cortez to the Gulf of California – which is already in use -, as part of the names reminiscent of the Conquest of Mexico. “ Now on tour on Saturday I went to Mexicali and then to San Felipe, back in the Gulf of California. Before it was called the Sea of Cortez, but we are going to change its name, is Gulf of California … ¡What Sea of Cortez or nothing! ”, expressed on November 14, from Culiacán, Sinaloa.
This change is in addition to those that occurred – by the federal government and local governments – with other important monuments and sites whose name or origin is rooted at the time of the Conquest and the Colony. Examples of this are:
- Glorieta de Colón (CDMX). In October 2020, the government of Mexico City – headed by Claudia Sheinbaum – removed the statue of Christopher Columbus inaugurated in 1877 on Paseo de la Reforma. López Obrador simply said that the head of government reported that the statue was to be relocated, without this having happened so far.
- Palacio de Cortés (Morelos). The building built by Hernán Cortés as his personal residence is currently called “ Museum of the Peoples of Morelos ”, after its reconstruction due to the effects of the earthquakes of September 19, 2017. Its construction began in 1526, making it one of the oldest buildings of the New Spanish period preserved in Mexico.
- Puente de Alvarado Avenue (CDMX). It is currently called Avenida México-Tenochtitlán, to commemorate 500 years of indigenous resistance. History notes that on May 20, 1520, the conqueror Pedro de Alvarado ordered the killing of the Mexicas in Templo Mayor when they performed the Toxcatl ceremony to ask the gods Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli for rains. For that episode, a section of the Mexico-Tacuba road received the name of Puente de Alvarado.
- Conquest and fall of Tenochtitlán (CDMX). On August 13, 2021, “ 500 years of indigenous resistance ” were completed after the “ take ” from Mexico City-Tenochtitlán at the hands of the Spanish and their allies. That is why the Federal Government carried out various activities within the framework of that commemorative date. One of these events, led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was held at the foot of the replica of the Templo Mayor that was mounted in the capital’s Zocalo.
- Sad Night Tree (CDMX). In that same sense, the historic tree commemorating a defeat for Hernán Cortés also changed its name and became the “ Tree of the Victorious Night ”, under the Sheinbaum administration at the head of the local government, on July 26, 2021. This tree is a hollow over 500 years old that is located on the oldest road in Latin America, originally called Tlacopan, currently the Mexico-Tacuba road.
Source: Miguel Velázquez from Publimetro México on 2024-02-19 12:54:06
