Columbus, Juana and the Politics of the Plaza: Battles over Monuments, Memory and Identity in Buenos Aires
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DOI: 10.1017/s0022216x18001086
Abstract: Abstract In 2013, Argentina's then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sparked controversy for her decision to replace a monument of Christopher Columbus in Buenos Aires with one of nineteenth-century mestiza revolutionary Juana Azurduy. This article examines… read more here.
Keywords: memory; buenos aires; juana; buenos ... See more keywords