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 a famous statue (El Angel de la Independencia) in downtown Mexico City. It will be flanked by the portraits of Miguel Hidalgo, a hero of the 1810 independence, and Francisco Madera, a father of the 1910 revolution.
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