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On Second Thought, Maybe Accepting $5 Million to Erect a Statue of a Foreign Dictator's Dad Isn't Such a Great Idea
Mexico City's surreal adventure with Heydar Aliyev.
He's the deceased dictator of Azerbaijan. She's the most beautiful street in Mexico City. Not even $5 million in oil money could keep them together.
After five tumultuous months, a bronze likeness of Heydar Aliyev, the former KGB officer who ruled Azerbaijan with an iron fist from 1993 to 2003, was quietly removed from the Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City earlier this week.