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Benito Juarez gets a new look

13:00 H | Topics: Mexico - Money

Perhaps a nod to Mexico's supposed newfound modernity, the 20 peso bills of old are getting major redesign. Here's how they currently look:

See Benito's new look after the jump.

Mexico City blog DFinitivo reports that the new bills will be put into circulation this coming Monday, and wonders if one of the biggest design changes -- the replacing of the eagle in the background with the scales of justice -- can be attributed to the fact that defeated presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador had chosen to use the eagle as a symbol of his "legitimate government". But could that really have so much weight? The eagle and the nopal are Mexico's national symbols, and I don't think AMLO's borrowing of one of them could change the way it's been viewed for hundreds of years.

DFinitivo also reports that another major change was that the Juarez Hemicycle, a monument to Benito located in Mexico City's Alameda Central, was replaced by an image of Oaxaca's Monte Albán archeological site, recently named as a UNESCO cultural heritage site.

Via / DFinitivo

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