As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away.

As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away.

The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean.

“May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges,” reads the inscription below the towering Cold War relic, attributed to Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero and titled, “A World Without Walls.”

    • Flying Squid
      10•1 year ago

      They were two different countries at the time. That’s like calling the Koreas a divided country.

      • @bleepbloopbleep
        1•1 year ago

        Not true. Germany was divided into two countries by the allied forces and Russia after WWII…

        • Flying Squid
          3•1 year ago

          Feel free to educate me then. How were they not two different countries at the time? The U.N. recognized them as such.

            • Flying Squid
              4•1 year ago

              I said the Koreas, not the US and Mexico. Did you not read what I wrote?

              Again, please explain how West Germany and East Germany were not two separate countries when even the U.N. recognized their independent sovereignty.