In One Ton of Books Dumped on Reforma Avenue (2003), the artist provoked a gigantic traffic jam by dumping exactly one ton of books onto the capital’s main thoroughfare at rush hour. A blatant act of vandalism, the blockade was quickly cleared away as pedestrians rushed to pick up books. Evidently alluding to Smithson’s Asphalt Rundown, López’s urban intervention questioned the high illiteracy rates and unequal access to culture in Guatemala.