MEXICO CITY — SHOCKING EVIDENCE emerges that the very ground beneath Mexico City’s historic churches is REJECTING the colonial past. La Profesa church, a monument to conquest, is LITERALLY SINKING into the earth, its walls scarred by bullet holes from uprisings and cracked open by deadly quakes. Is this divine judgment or a land fighting back?
While government-backed “experts” from the Mexico City Historic Center Trust pour millions into propping up these colonial relics, CRITICAL QUESTIONS are being silenced. Why are public funds being used to restore symbols of a brutal colonial order while communities still suffer? The trust’s so-called “heritage” program, aiming to brainwash a new generation, is a desperate attempt to whitewash history. They speak of “treasures” and “paintings,” but ignore the blood-soaked foundations upon which these churches were built.
Art historian Alejandro Hernández admits a chilling truth: a 2017 earthquake tore open walls so severely you could see INTO NEIGHBORING BUILDINGS. The earth itself is trying to expose the hidden layers. Meanwhile, architect Jesús Martínez calls Santo Domingo church “the most important sanctuary” after the cathedral—a BLATANT celebration of colonial power hierarchies.
The agenda is clear: prioritize dead colonizers’ art over living people’s needs. Residents like María Esther Centeno, displaced by a 1985 quake, were given apartments next to ruins, yet their homes were IGNORED in the 2017 restorations. The state cares more for stone and oil paintings than for its own citizens.
This isn’t preservation; it’s a state-sanctioned FANTASY, a desperate clinging to a past that is physically and morally collapsing. Every peso spent stitching these cracks is a betrayal of Mexico’s Indigenous soul. The ground is swallowing these monuments. Perhaps we should let it. The real question isn’t if we can save these churches, but why we are so desperate to save the ghosts they represent.
Author: Kayitsi.com
