Jake Broe Stan
Elite
Mexico places piece of Berlin wall near US border: 'May this be a lesson'
Mexican officials are comparing the U.S. border wall to the Berlin Wall that Soviets used to divide Germany, placing a piece just feet away from San Diego.
Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero and former Mexican foreign secretary Marcelo Ebrard installed the shard of the Soviet wall during a ceremony last month. A plaque near its base, written by Caballero, reads, "May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges."
The message-laden move comes as the U.S. continues to expand its barriers across the nearly 2,000 miles of territory dividing the U.S. and Mexico. Unlike the U.S. border, however, the Berlin Wall was originally installed by an occupying power to divide a nation against itself.
