I'm currently in Tegucigalpa on a business trip. This afternoon I played tourist and visited the
Monumento a La Paz (Peace Monument) that sits atop a nicely forested hill in the center of the city. The monument was completed in 1948 at the end of the administration of one of our more colorful and longest-serving caudillo presidents,
Tiburcio Carías. Many oldtimers look back fondly on the Carías period as he instituted and effectively enforced a zero tolerance policy on crime
and criminals. Interestingly, this monument was just chosen by the
capitalinos (Tegucigalpa residents) in
a newspaper poll to be the "symbol of Tegucigalpa." Such is the yearning for justice and peace in my country.
Tellingly, in a country traditionally considered to be "devoutly Catholic," the "pagan"
Monumento a La Paz beat (by a very large margin) the
Cristo del Picacho, a statue representing the Christian prophet that sits on a peak overlooking the city. More evidence that even in
supposedly deeply religious societies people are realizing that the emperor (
hate-breeding organized religion) has no clothes.
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