Explore the Reception of this artwork, Statue of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Former president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, said that the installation exemplifies the meaning of "Fourth Transformation", López Obrador's political platform, referring to the PRI's previous phases: the National Revolutionary Party, the Party of the Mexican Revolution, and the PRI era, being MORENA its "Fourth Transformation", adding that "Each stage has had the living statue of its maximum leader. And moreover... in Atlacomulco".After its demolition, around 20 people protested in front of the municipal palace. Diego Fernández de Cevallos said that López Obrador destroyed it himself because he promised to not leave a stone set upon another.
Atlacomulco Felipe Calderón president of Mexico Fourth Transformation Diego Fernández de Cevallos