Antimonumento +65

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Antimonumento +65 is an antimonumento (anti-monument) near the Mexican Stock Exchange, on Paseo de la Reforma, in the borough of Cuauhtémoc in Mexico City. The installation features the number 65 and a plus sign, commemorating the sixty-five miners who died in the Pasta de Conchos mine disaster on 1

9 February 2006 in San Juan de Sabinas Municipality, Coahuila. Only two bodies had been recovered as of 2018. The anti-monument was installed on 18 February 2018, the eve of the disaster's twelfth anniversary, as a demand for justice in response to the collapse and government inaction. The installation was not given an official name; organizers simply referred to it as Antimonumento. The plus symbol in the sculpture is engraved with the names of the victims and the Spanish phrase A una voz, ¡rescate ya! (transl. 'With one voice, rescue now!'). The symbol also represents miners who died in similar incidents. The following year, activists placed a metal cage behind the sculpture containing sixty-three helmets buried in coal extracted from a Coahuila mine.

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