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If you stand close enough to Denver’s Federal Boulevard and search for “Tlatelolco” in Google Maps, you’ll be served two results, 1,446 miles apart. One is a historic district in Mexico City, built on and around the remains of a 14th-century Aztec city-state of the same name. The second, Google Maps will tell you, is Escuela Tlatelolco, an educational institution located in a small, L-shaped brick building across the road from Denver’s North High School.
The second listing is an error, a digital ghost…
Wow! Excellent article. I feel shame for the atrocities suffered by the natives of our country and continent at the hands of explorers, wealth seekers and the government that designed what has become our country. Thank you for this.