![]() ![]() ![]() In three weeks, the National Football League will play its second-ever regular-season game in Mexico, and the first since 2005. Somehow my journey led me here to this plaza, and specifically to this memorial. I came to Mexico to look at the country’s relationship with football, that most American of sports. The memorial honors the victims of what’s widely regarded as Mexico’s darkest and bloodiest day. Incorporated into the plaza is a wide slate patio, on which a small memorial has been erected. ![]() Finally there’s the skyscraper former home of Mexico’s Department of Foreign Affairs, representing the current state. Looming over the ruins is a Catholic church built by Spaniards, who colonized the country in the 1500s. Aztec ruins date back to the ancient city they called Tlatelolco. It’s an archeological treasure, common ground for different empires that have occupied Mexico over the centuries. There’s a space in Mexico City called the Plaza of the Three Cultures.
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