A terrific day in town. Lunch downtown, walk to Juarez Park (next to the Palacio Gobierno), and then up to a great city park, Parque Ecológico Macuiltépetl. I think the park is on the highest spot in town, a wooded hilltop, with trails, gardens and a little nature museum with birds of prey staked out on the hillside. We watched while the caretaker took some of them off their leads for a bit of exercise. Then on up to the top, to the pyramid.

This is a very curious structure, actually a tomb, apparently built in the 1940s to honor and house the remains of some radical leaders of the Agrarista movement of the 1920s. This was a radical land reform movement; its leaders were communists, visited the Soviet Union, and came back all inspired by the achievements of modern collective agriculture.

But the curious thing is that there is absolutely no mention of these people or their movement. If you look closely you can see the wrought iron hammer and sickle on the gate, and a few more h&s's on the crypts themselves. But if you weren't looking for it, you would never know about the radicals resting there. On the park signs, its just called the "Pyramid."

Click for video - Pigeons in Juarez Park
Click for video - Dancers at Pyramid