After forty years of painstaking effort, the mural titled “America Tropical, originally painted in 1932 by Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, and later whitewashed, has been preserved with a new viewing platform and interpretative center funded by the Getty Conservation Institute and the City of Los Angeles. Latinopia visited with the restoration staff of the Getty Institute, as they set about preparing for the launch of the new public viewing of the mural. Latinopia asked how the mural came to be preserved.