Reforma

Reports from the outlet Reforma noted that cartel operatives had exploited the run-down conditions of some buildings in the area to construct the clandestine tunnels.

Little traffic is seen on the usually crowded Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City, at dusk Saturday, March 28, 2020.

Cars stuck in traffic on Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma on Oct. 19, 2018.

Among the destroyed public buildings were the Palace of La Reforma built by Reyna Barrios and the maternity house "Joaquina"; because of this, a lot of the infrastructure of these years has been forgotten by new generations of Guatemalans.

Memorials and references in popular culture On the morning of December 8, 1914, Francisco "Pancho" Villa declared that the street leading from the Zócalo in Mexico City towards the Paseo de la Reforma would be named after Madero.

On the statue to Cuauhtemoc on the Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City, there is a bas relief showing the Spaniards' torture of the emperor.

Roads and car transport View of the Anillo Periférico and Paseo de la Reforma near Chapultepec In the late 1970s many arterial roads were redesigned as ejes viales ; high-volume one-way roads that cross, in theory, Mexico City proper from side to side.

While the initial focus was on developing modern hospitals, schools, factories and massive public works, perhaps the most long-lasting effects of the Porfirian modernization were creation of the Colonia Roma area and the development of Reforma Avenue.