BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA.- Ariosto Otero, of the Uni髇 Latinoamericana de Muralistas y Creadores de Arte Monumental AC (Latin American Union of Muralists and Monumental Art Creators) thinks that a mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros was partly sold and now the company that owns the rest of it wants to destroy it to hide the sale. Ariosto Otero has petitioned the governments of Mexico and Argentina together with other coleagues from Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay and Cuba to save this mural.

Arioso Otero was the second muralist to arrive to Argentina in 1997, after Siqueiros traveled to Argentina in the 1930’s. Otero was invited to the first Muralism Meeting and learned the details of the work Plastic Exercise.

The work was then where it was made, in the home of Natalio Botana. It was closed to the view of the public. Otero then learned that Mexican restorer Manuel Serrano would take it apart to remove it from that place.