LANZA Judical’s Introduces an Emblematic Mock Trial Competition Trophy
LANZA’s Mock trial Competition trophy joins iconic symbols of Mexican heritage and justice to represent the organization’s vision.
La Lanza de la Justicia – An Emblem of Justice for Mexico.
by: Joelle Hernandez, Executive Director & Co-Founder of Liga de Enseñanza Judicial de México, A.C.
Posted: November 16, 2021
Monterrey, Mexico — In August 2017, my family and I bid farewell to the mystical La Guajira Desert of Colombia and moved to the industrious city of Monterrey in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. I was starting my new post as a Business and Technology teacher with the American School Foundation of Monterrey and my husband, Liga de Enseñanza Judicial de México, A.C. (LANZA) co-founder Dan Hernandez, who was keen to introduce our eight-year-old daughter to Mexican culture, took her on a 3-day trip to Mexico City. It was during this father-daughter jaunt that the iconography for LANZA came into shape. Upon seeing the Monument to Cuauhtémoc, last of the Aztec Emperors, Dan was inspired to learn that the word used by the Aztec for their leader, “Tlatoani”, means “the one who speaks”. This concept of a leader as one who speaks for his people, aligned so well with the spirt of our mission at LANZA, that we adopted the emblematic armament of the Aztec, the spear of Cuauhtémoc, as a symbol of our young advocates, of those who will act as the spearheads that break the barriers to fair and equal justice.
Today, LANZA uses the spearhead motif in its branding, including its logo and advertising and, starting in 2022, LANZA is excited to introduce La Lanza de la Justicia (The Spear of Justice) trophy for its Mock Trial Competition (MTC). Designed by Mexican artist Francisco Coronado, our MTC trophy (pictured) unifies the Aztec spearhead, symbolizing Mexican heritage, and the judge’s gavel, a universal emblem of the justice system. Together, these icons serve as an emblematic representation of LANZA’s vision of a Mexico where everyone has access to justice.
For more information about LANZA’s mission, please visit the About section of our website. More information about Francisco Coronado, the artist that created our MTC trophy, is available here.
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