When Alejandro and I went downtown on Saturday we had dinner at the terrace restaurant of the Liverpool Department Store. (By the way, neither the food nor the service was nearly as good as at the Insurgentes Avenue branch of the store where I had lunch last month.) It was an overcast day, but as, sunset approached, the sun was still able to brighten the clouds on the western horizon.
It was not as dramatic as some of the sunsets I have photographed, but it was a nice view of downtown Mexico City. To the right is the Torre Latinoamericana (Latin American Tower), a city landmark which, when it was completed in 1956, was the tallest skyscraper in all of Latin America. Its innovative engineering technique of driving piles deep into the muddy soil is now standard procedure here in this earthquake prone city. Since its construction, it has survived three major quakes without damage.
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