Title: The History of Mexico (mural) - Wikipedia
Headings: The History of Mexico
(mural)

The History of Mexico (mural)
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The artist: Diego Rivera
Background for the mural
Description of the mural
North wall
West (main) wall
South wall
Interpretation
References

Content: This part portrays the destruction of the Native American culture by the Spaniards, including eliminating Native American dialect, traditions, and beliefs. They forced the Native Americans to speak Spanish, become Catholics and live like Europeans but the Indians resisted. On the far left upper lobe, Rivera shows the execution of Maximilian, the Austrian emperor who controlled Mexico in the 1860s. This symbolized the end of European rule of Mexico. This mural also emphasizes Benito Juarez, Mexico's only Indian president and the one considered the founder of the new Mexican nation. The top of the central part of the mural shows the victorious peasant armies of Zapata and Villa who led the Revolution that supposedly restored the people to power. The red banner saying " Tierra y Libertad " ("Land and Liberty") portrays the long struggles of poor Mexicans to regain their homeland. South wall
This part of the mural is about the future of Mexico. It shows factories, the Soviet flag (Rivera and the government at the time had socialist tendencies), workers, Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto, and an image of Rivera's wife Frida Kahlo. Kahlo and her sister Cristina are shown as socialist teachers bringing a glorious future.