[1][2][3] According to the city's Secretary of Culture, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, the project is still under consideration but The Young Woman of Amajac has higher priority.

[4] The head was set to replace a monument to Christopher Columbus, originally located on a roundabout along Paseo de la Reforma Avenue, in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City.

[5] She also said that Tlalli would replace the statue of Columbus, to honor 500 years of the resistance of indigenous women,[12] and that the relocation was not to "erase history" but to "deliver social justice".

[14] Tlalli was designed by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes,[15] a similar smaller version (less than 1 m (3 ft 3 in) across) was exhibited in Lisson Gallery in New York City in May 2021.

[16] The sculpture was proposed to be made of volcanic rock and it was being sculpted in three workshops located in Iztapalapa, Chimalhuacán and Coyoacán by women artisans and sculptors.

For the hair, a pair of braids that converge at a point at the occipital bone were chosen to form a representation of Nahui Ollin, the Earthquake Sun.

[24] More than 300 people linked to art and culture signed a petition for Sheinbaum requesting the exclusion of Reyes from the project and the creation of a committee composed of women from indigenous communities to choose a monument that represents them.

[26] As a response, on 25 September 2021, a group of feminists placed a purple wooden woman with her fist raised on the empty Columbus plinth.

[28] Reyes exhibited Citlalli (Nahuatl for Star) at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey in March 2022 which, according to him, is a version similar to Tlalli.