In response to the reinforcement and expansion of the border wall built between Mexico and the United States by the US government, the mayor of Tijuana, Montserrat Caballero, has installed a fragment of the Berlin Wall a few feet from the border with the aim of reflecting their opposition to the projects being carried out by the Biden Administration on immigration.
"How many stories could this last piece of the Berlin Wall tell us. How many families have shed blood, labor, and their lives to get past the wall seeking freedom and hope." "How many voices of pain were recorded on its walls. And it definitely happens here, at our border wall, between Tijuana and San Diego. Because we are a government that believes more in building bridges than in walls and ramparts that are useless." said Caballero during the installation of this small part of the Soviet emblem on Mexican soil. "The struggle is lost when the struggle is abandoned and we will never abandon them. Let's defend together what was conquered in 1989 [alluding to the fall of the Berlin wall] and continue building a world without walls and a Tijuana for all."
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In addition to the installation of the fragment of the Berlin Wall -which they have nicknamed as A World without Walls-, the mayor of Tijuana placed a plaque with the phrases "humanity transcends barriers and goes beyond territories and nations" and "let this be a lesson to build a society that tears down walls and builds bridges of solidarity and understanding, always seeking the common good, social justice, freedom and twinning."
