Reflections as Mexico celebrates 200 years of Independence

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2010/09/15  4 Responses »
Sep 152010
 
Reflections as Mexico celebrates 200 years of Independence

Just before midnight on September 15, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Roman Catholic priest from the small central highlands village of Dolores, Guanajuato, addressed his fellow townspeople in front of his church. “My children: a new dispensation comes to us today. Will you receive it? Will you free yourselves? Will you recover the lands stolen three hundred years ago from your forefathers by the hated Spaniards? We must act at once… Will you defend your religion and your rights as true patriots? Long live our Lady of Guadalupe! Death to bad government! Death to the gachupines!” Each year on the night of September 15, the President of Mexico rings the bell of the National Palace in Mexico City. He MORE

Mexico to have entry in Rose Parade – First in 40 years

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Dec 262009
 
Mexico to have entry in Rose Parade - First in 40 years

In honor of the 200th anniversary of Mexican independence and 100 years since the country’s revolution, the Mexican government is sponsoring its first Rose Parade float in over 40 years. “With this float we’re going to tell 40 million people watching on TV that it’s Mexico’s birthday,” said Juan Marcos Gutierrez-Gonzalez, the Mexican consul general in Los Angeles. “There’s no better way to do it.” In a presentation Tuesday announcing next year’s year-long festivities for the county’s historic milestones, officials from the Mexican consulate unveiled the frame of the float. It depicts moments and symbols of the independence and revolution. Across the middle, six-foot letters spell out “M xico 2010.” At the head of the float stands a replica of MORE