Plaza of the Three Cultures

In the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, the ruins of the Mexica city stand next to the colonial church of Santiago. A plaque there reads: “El 13 de agosto de 1521 heroicamente defendido por Cuauhtémoc cayó Tlatelolco en poder de Hernán Cortés. No fue triunfo ni derrota. Fue el doloroso nacimiento del pueblo mestizo que es el México de hoy.”

(On August 13, 1521, heroically defended by Cuauhtémoc, Tlatelolco fell to Hernán Cortés. It was neither triumph nor defeat. It was the painful birth of the mestizo people that is the Mexico of today.)

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