Members of the Cuerpo de Guardias Presidenciales, an entity of the Mexican army that protects the country’s president and his family, former presidents, secretaries of state and visiting foreign functionaries, swept and cleared billboards from the path leading to the Altar a la Patria, a mausoleum in Mexico City’s Bosque de Chapultepec, or Chapultepec Park, where Andrej Kiska, president of the Slovak Republic, began his visit to Mexico on Nov. 21. Kiska laid a wreath at the mausoleum, also known as Niños Héroes Memorial, which is dedicated to the young cadets who died in the 1847 Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican-American War.

Mayela Sánchez, GPJ Mexico

Members of the Cuerpo de Guardias Presidenciales, an entity of the Mexican army that protects the country’s president and his family, former presidents, secretaries of state and visiting foreign functionaries, swept and cleared billboards from the path leading to the Altar a la Patria, a mausoleum in Mexico City’s Bosque de Chapultepec, or Chapultepec Park, where Andrej Kiska, president of the Slovak Republic, began his visit to Mexico on Nov. 21. Kiska laid a wreath at the mausoleum, also known as Niños Héroes Memorial, which is dedicated to the young cadets who died in the 1847 Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican-American War.

Mayela Sánchez, GPJ Mexico

Members of the Cuerpo de Guardias Presidenciales, an entity of the Mexican army that protects the country’s president and his family, former presidents, secretaries of state and visiting foreign functionaries, swept and cleared billboards from the path leading to the Altar a la Patria, a mausoleum in Mexico City’s Bosque de Chapultepec, or Chapultepec Park, where Andrej Kiska, president of the Slovak Republic, began his visit to Mexico on Nov. 21. Kiska laid a wreath at the mausoleum, also known as Niños Héroes Memorial, which is dedicated to the young cadets who died in the 1847 Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican-American War.

Mayela Sánchez, GPJ Mexico

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Members of the Cuerpo de Guardias Presidenciales, an entity of the Mexican army that protects the country’s president and his family, former presidents, secretaries of state and visiting foreign functionaries, swept and cleared billboards from the path leading to the Altar a la Patria, a mausoleum in Mexico City’s Bosque de Chapultepec, or Chapultepec Park, where Andrej Kiska, president of the Slovak Republic, began his visit to Mexico on Nov. 21. Kiska laid a wreath at the mausoleum, also known as Niños Héroes Memorial, which is dedicated to the young cadets who died in the 1847 Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican-American War.

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By Mayela Sánchez Senior Reporter
November 30, 2017
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