Glorieta de las mujeres que luchan

The Glorieta de las mujeres que luchan is the proposed name of a roundabout along Paseo de la Reforma Avenue, in Mexico City. At its center is an anti-monument (antimonumenta) installed on a previously empty plinth. On the afternoon of 25 September 2021, a group of anonymous feminists intervened at the Christopher Columbus roundabout. On an empty plinth surrounded by protective fences, they installed a wooden guerrilla-style sculpture demanding justice for the recurrent acts of violence against women in Mexico. Originally named Antimonumenta Vivas Nos Queremos (lit. transl. Anti-monument We Want Us Alive), the piece later became known simply as Justicia. It depicts a purple woman holding her left arm raised and the Spanish word for justice carved into a support at the back. The roundabout itself was also symbolically renamed Glorieta de las mujeres que luchan (Roundabout of the Women Who Fight). The traffic circle formerly honored Columbus with a statue sculpted by French artist Charles Cordier, installed in 1887. Ahead of a 2020 anti-Columbus Day protest, Mexico City's administration, led by its head of government Claudia Sheinbaum, removed the statue from its pedestal citing restoration as the reason. Months later, Sheinbaum announced that the statue would not be returned to its original site. Instead, following a petition signed by 5,000 Indigenous women calling for the deco

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