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
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    1 year ago

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

    • @bleepbloopbleep
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      1 year ago

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

      • Flying Squid
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        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
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            41 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.

              • Flying Squid
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                21 year ago

                So North Korea is not a country either? That is your contention? I’m stupid, remember, so I am trying to get this clear.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    21 year ago

                    Insulting me is not an answer. Is North Korea a sovereign nation or not? It’s a pretty simple question.