Is Mexico City's newest monument a tribute to spirit or graft?

The Miami Herald Sunday 15th January, 2012

MEXICO CITY -- The newest addition to this city's skyline, a monument of steel and luminescent quartz that soars some 30 stories into the sky, is destined to "become an icon of our capital," says Mexican President Felipe Calderon. But rather than boost national pride, the Stele of Light, which the government says cost some $77 million, has sparked...

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