Antimonumento +72 (Mexican Spanish pronunciation: [ˌan.ti.mo.nuˈmen.to ˈmas seˌtenta i ˈdos]) is an anti-monument located on the sidewalk opposite the Embassy of the United States in Mexico City, on Paseo de la Reforma in the borough of Cuauhtémoc.
The sculpture was dedicated to the seventy-two migrants murdered in 2010 in the village of El Huizachal, in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, after being detained by the drug cartel Los Zetas.
At the same time, they criticized the difficulties of crossing Mexico in relation to the crimes and harassment that migrants receive, including by co-nationals.
[1] On 22 August 2010, an armed commando from the Los Zetas criminal organization stopped a busload of migrants headed to the United States in Tamaulipas.
[2][3][4] On 22 August 2020, at 10:00 in the morning, various groups of activists, relatives of disappeared people, migrants, and non-governmental organizations gathered in front of the Embassy of the United States in Mexico City building to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the massacre.