In October 1985, several rubble-loaded trucks headed to the northeastern highway out of the Federal District. The waste of constructions destroyed by the earthquake from a few weeks before now wobbled on the back of the trucks. They drove slowly, all the way from the Nuevo León apartment building in Tlatelolco. What nowadays is the Peñón-Texcoco Highway, was then only a deserted road the vehicles used to gain the Federal Enclosure of Lake Texcoco. The site was mostly idle, a demi-desert. Once inside, and split in many directions, the loads were dumped to the ground: when falling, the shape of a column or a staircase was glimpsed among tons of nondescript chunks. Among the rubble, some objects could be seen that, thirty years after, are still found in the salty surface of the lakebed: shreds of fabric, dresses, shoe heels, ceramic shards, and other unidentifiable objects squashed between wall slats. [...]
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