Mexican Independence Day 2010: Happy Bicentenario Mexico

Mexican Independence Day 2010: Happy Bicentenario Mexico - Viva Mexico! Few hours from now, it'll be the September 16, 2010, and it's 200th anniversary of Mexican Independence Day or in Spanish "Bicentenario Mexico." Back in September 16, 1810, Mexican Independence Day was declared by Miguel Hidalgo y Costa holds, a Catholic priest of progressive ideas in the small town of Dolores with a Proclamation known as the "Grito de Dolores."

The Grito de Dolores or "Cry of Dolores" is a battle cry of the Mexican War of Independence against Spanish colonial government. About 200 years ago, just before the midnight of September 15, 1810, Hidalgo ordered the church bells to Be Rung ™ for and at his Congregation. Flanked by Ignacio Allende, the captain of the Spanish Army in Mexico and Juan Aldama, a Mexican revolutionary rebel soldier, they addressed the mexicans in front of at his church, Encouraging Them Thurs Revolt Saying:

"My children: a new dispensation was random to us today. Will you Receive it? Will you free yourselves? Will you Recover the lands stolen by 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! "

Since then, Hidalgo y holds Cost's "Cry of Independence" has Become emblematic of Mexican Independence. Each year on the night of September 15, the President of Mexico rings the bell of the National Palace in Mexico City. He repeats a cry of patriotism (a Grito Mexicano) based upon the "Grito de Dolores" from the balcony of the palace to the Crowd Assembled in the Plaza de la Constitución, one of the largest public plazas in the world. This event Draws up to half a million spectators. This year 2010, President Calderon'd call upon mexicans-to-use the Mexican Independence Day Thurs reflect is Where The country has Been Thurs and think about what kind of Mexico Descendents will inherit in the future.

It is the dawn of September 16 or the Mexican Independence Day Itself, the National Military parade starts in the Zócalo, passes the Hidalgo Memorial and ends on the Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City's main boulevard. All of Mexico's 31 states and the Federal District of Mexico City not have set up Their own Bicentennial commissions is Mexican Independence Day, with the first meeting of state commissions in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, WCG has Been declared the "Capital Of The Bicentennial. Happy 200th anniversary of the Mexican Independence Day To all mexicans! VIVA Mexico!

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