'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
The appearance of a life-size statue of Azerbaijan's "founder of the nation" on Mexico City's elegant Reforma Avenue, not far from Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and Mexico's national heroes, is raising eyebrows and protests.
"They probably have a warehouse full of these things somewhere" in Azerbaijan, said Daniel Gershenson, human rights activist who was one of about a dozen protesters who demonstrated last week in front of the monument, holding banners that read "Get rid of the dictator!"
Statue of Azerbaijan’s strongman the string attached to foreign aid →
