[2] The area is serviced by the city's Metrobús system at El Ahuehuete BRT stop (formerly "La Palma"), whose pictogram formerly featured the palm tree.

[7] Carlos Martínez Assad, emeritus researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, disputed the age of the palm and considers its real age to be between 70 and 80 years as, according to him, it was a gift from Haile Selassie, the last Emperor of Ethiopia, to Lázaro Cárdenas as compensation for his stand against Italy's occupation during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

[7] A Montezuma cypress, also known as an ahuehuete, was chosen in a non-binding poll with more than 77,000 votes,[14] Sheinbaum announced it would be planted on 5 June 2022 (on World Environment Day).

[20] In September 2022, the city government walled off the traffic circle to bar pedestrian entry because of the recovery slowness.

[22] In November 2022, Saúl Alcántara, a specialist in garden conservation at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and who collaborated in the successful transfer of other similar specimens in the city, said that the tree's chance of improvement was minimal.

[26] Three days later, a man crossed the protective fence and began pouring fresh cement over the tree's roots and soil, as well as uninstalling the irrigation system.

[30] Photos of the missing were posted on the location, just like what occurred at the nearby Glorieta de las mujeres que luchan, which was taken over by feminists.

In order to draw attention to the nearly 100,000 instances of missing persons reported in the nation as of May 2022,[a] the collectives installed the pictures.

[32] Activists reinstalled the pictures of the missing people a few hours after the Montezuma cypress was planted, they nicknamed the tree El guardián de los desaparecidos ("The Guardian of the Disappeared")[33] and they asked the officials to officially rename the roundabout the Glorieta de las y los Desaparecidos.

[34] In this regard, government representatives have mentioned that they would prefer to intervene the Estela de Luz, a monument also located on the avenue, into a memorial in honor of the missing.

[37] The following week, activists repainted the area and urged Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president of Mexico, to keep his pledge to meet with them to address the disappearances.