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Old Posted Aug 13, 2012, 11:22 PM
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This is the mural on the rooftop at Olvera Street.


http://blog.theautry.org/2010/06/29/...le-connection/

A 80 foot long mural by David Alfara Siqueiros, covered up since the 1930s.

Anglo promoters expected a work called 'America Tropical' to show a romantic Mexican village. What they got was a crucified peasant
in a protest against American imperialism.

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