This colonia is primarily known for its abundance of dealers selling used car parts, and an incident when six youths were executed by police.

About half of the colonia's residents make a living from car parts, but these businesses have a reputation for selling stolen merchandise.

[4] It is believed that the name is ironic, as at the time wastewater flowed past here in the Rio La Piedad.

From in the 1940s, with the rise of the automobile, work associated with cars, such as mechanics and taxi drivers began to dominate the economy.

[3][5] In 1997, Buenos Aires became famous due to a tragedy that came to symbolize urban violence at that time, being widely reported and analyzed for weeks on radio and television.

[6] The young men were apprehended by the police as they occupied an abandoned car in front of a city run child care center.

[7] The bodies of three of the men were left with authorities because their families demanding DNA tests from abroad to verify identity.

[6] Six years after their death, the remains of the three, Ángel Leal Alonso, Carlos Alberto López Inés and Román Morales, were still in the lockers of the Forensics Service.

At the corner of Doctor Andrade and Ingeniero Bolaños Cacho an altar to the Virgin of Guadalupe serves as a memorial to the victims.

These are sculptures are made of machine parts soldered together and located on the traffic islands on Doctor Vértiz Street.

She first created a piece using a 1955 Ford Crown Victoria in Tijuana, then began to be interested in Buenos Aires after the 1997 incident.

The most accepted was based on a 1979 Grand Marquis parked in front of the child care center where the executed youths had been taken.

[3] The government, too, has ceased to consider the area as a major focus for the traffic in stolen auto parts but the reputation persists.

fierce) or dangerous and a “nido de delincuentes” (nest of delinquents) even though crime statistics here are fairly low.

Assaults tend to concentrate on the following streets: Doctor Norma, Federico Gomez Santos, Andrade as well as near the Centro Médico hospital.

[3] The neighborhood contains the Panteón Francés de la Piedad (French Cemetery of Piety) which was founded by Maximilian I in the 19th century.

[11] The government of the Cuauhtémoc borough states that the cemetery was closed in 1924;[4] however, Oaxacan writer Andrés Henestrosa was buried here in 2008, which was his wish according to his daughter.