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.”

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    1 year ago

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

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        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.

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          That you think Mexiko and USA are the same people you divide by a border. Its not like that.

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            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.

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              Because you are literally shifting the goalposts around. They are both borders that divide a people.

              And nobody gives a fuck About UN, they are a joke.