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
    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.