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Outgoing President Alan García had a "vision".
He felt that constructing the world's tallest statue of Jesus Christ overlooking Lima...would "bless Peru and protect Lima".
And, no doubt, leave a highly visible monument...honoring his years in power.
Now, the critics have descended on Garcia...since his secret statue was revealed.
The 37 meters high statue...will be dedicated on 29 June...visible from anywhere on the city's 12-mile coastline. It has cost almost $900,000 usd to construct...monies donated by a private Brasilian firm.
Architect Augusto Ortiz de Zevallos called it an "excessive and authoritarian gesture" lacking in "aesthetic, historic or symbolic" significance, comparing it to the monumentalism of 1940s leaders such as Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini.
