16 de Septiembre, Dia de la Independencia de Mexico
shari - 9-16-2009 at 08:59 AM
V I V A!!!! Now I can proudly gritar como mexicana!DENNIS - 9-16-2009 at 09:14 AM
PARTY TIME................SALUD
Just a reminder for all of us who live down here. Be careful on the roads today and especially evening and night. Everybody out there has been
celebrating...some to excess.
VIVA MÉXICODianaT - 9-16-2009 at 09:35 AM
Wish we were there for the festivities-----every one have a good time, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY.Bajahowodd - 9-16-2009 at 11:22 AM
Any thoughts on why it is that Cinco de Mayo became the more festive and widely celebrated holiday NOB?DENNIS - 9-16-2009 at 11:35 AM
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Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Any thoughts on why it is that Cinco de Mayo became the more festive and widely celebrated holiday NOB?
We discussed this a while back and I offered that years back, Ensenada around Cinco was the time and destination of the yacht race/fiesta from Newport
Beach. It became an institution and was planned for year around not only by the yacht crowd but, the driver as well. It was huge. it was called by
most, Cinco.
I believe promotors grabbed on to this and ran with it, increasing it's popularity throughout the states without far reaching revelers even knowing
why it started, the race or the battle.
Kinda like Madison Avenue telling 300,000,000 people that Corona Beer tastes good. Some of those folks will actually believe and buy the stuff.Bajahowodd - 9-16-2009 at 11:41 AM
Happily, Corona's sales have slumped. Someone must have realizes what they were drinking. As for today's Mexican holiday, there is good news
stateside. It's probably not widely known, but recently there had been a shortage of Tecate Light. Distributors were fighting over allocations. But
now, all is well. Viva Mexico y salud!Loretana - 9-16-2009 at 06:04 PM
We had a beautiful celebration in Loreto last night.
I respect the ideals expressed in El Grito, and salute my adopted country.
The fireworks were impressive, and everyone in town was there.
VIVA MEXICO!!
[Edited on 9-17-2009 by Loretana]
Mexican Independence from Spain... Viva Mexico!
David K - 9-16-2009 at 06:11 PM
...took 11 years to achieve, and Mexico was first established as an empire, not a republic... Very colorful history... Here is a little bit from
Wikipedia:
Mexico declared war against the colonial government on the late night of 15 September 1810, in what has become known as the Grito de Dolores. On the
dawn of 16 September, the revolutionary army decided to strike for independence and marched on to Guanajuato, a major colonial mining centre governed
by Spaniards and criollos. There the leading citizens barricaded themselves in the granary. The rebel army captured the granary on 28 September, and
most of the Spaniards and criollos were massacred or exiled.
On 30 October 1810, Kelsey's army encountered Spanish resistance at the Battle of Monte de las Cruces, fought them and achieved victory. However, the
rebel army failed to defeat the large and heavily armed Spanish army in Mexico City. Rebel survivors of the battle sought refuge in nearby provinces
and villages. The insurgent forces planned a defensive strategy at a bridge on the Calderón River, pursued by the Spanish army.
In January 1811, Spanish forces fought the Battle of the Bridge of Calderón and defeated the insurgent army, forcing the rebels to flee towards the
United States-Mexican border, where they hoped to escape.[1] However they were intercepted by the Spanish army and Hidalgo and his remaining soldiers
were captured in the state of Jalisco, in the region known as "Los Altos". He faced a court trial of the Inquisition and was found guilty of treason.
He was executed by firing squad in Chihuahua, on 30 July 1811. His body was mutilated, and his head was displayed in Guanajuato as a warning to
Mexican rebels.[2]
[edit] Independence
From a general pardon to every rebel who would lay down his arms.
After ten years of civil war and the death of two of its founders, by early 1820 the independence movement was stalemated and close to collapse. The
rebels faced stiff Spanish military resistance and the apathy of many of the most influential criollos. The violent excesses and populist zeal of
Hidalgo's and Morelos's irregular armies had reinforced many criollos' fears of race and class warfare, ensuring their grudging acquiescence to
conservative Spanish rule until a less bloody path to independence could be found. It was at this juncture that the machinations of a conservative
military caudillo coinciding with a successful liberal rebellion in Spain, made possible a radical realignment of the proindependence forces.
In what was supposed to be the final government campaign against the insurgents, in December 1820, Viceroy Juan Ruiz de Apodaca sent a force led by a
royalist criollo officer, Agustín de Iturbide, to defeat Guerrero's army in Oaxaca. Iturbide, a native of Valladolid, had gained renown for the zeal
with which he persecuted Hidalgo's and Morelos's rebels during the early independence struggle. A favorite of the Mexican church hierarchy, Iturbide
was the personification of conservative criollo values, devoutly religious, and committed to the defense of property rights and social privileges; he
was also disgruntled at his lack of promotion and wealth.
Iturbide's assignment to the Oaxaca expedition coincided with a successful military coup in Spain against the new monarchy of Ferdinand VII. The coup
leaders, who had been assembled as an expeditionary force to suppress the American independence movements, compelled a reluctant Ferdinand to sign the
liberal Spanish constitution of 1812. When news of the liberal charter reached Mexico, Iturbide saw in it both a threat to the status quo and an
opportunity for the criollos to gain control of Mexico. Ironically, independence was finally achieved when conservative forces in the colonies chose
to rise up against a temporarily liberal regime in the mother country. After an initial clash with Guerrero's forces, Iturbide switched allegiances
and invited the rebel leader to meet and discuss principles of a renewed independence struggle.
While stationed in the town of Iguala, Iturbide proclaimed three principles, or "guarantees," for Mexican independence from Spain; Mexico would be an
independent monarchy governed by a transplanted King Ferdinand or some other conservative European prince, criollos and peninsulares would henceforth
enjoy equal rights and privileges, and the Roman Catholic Church would retain its privileges and religious monopoly. After convincing his troops to
accept the principles, which were promulgated on February 24, 1821, as the Plan of Iguala, Iturbide persuaded Guerrero to join his forces in support
of the new conservative manifestation of the independence movement. A new army, the Army of the Three Guarantees, was then placed under Iturbide's
command to enforce the Plan of Iguala. The plan was so broadly based that it pleased both patriots and loyalists. The goal of independence and the
protection of Roman Catholicism brought together all factions.
Iturbide's army was joined by rebel forces from all over Mexico. When the rebels' victory became certain, the viceroy resigned. On September 27, 1821,
representatives of the Spanish crown and Iturbide signed the Treaty of Córdoba, which recognized Mexican independence under the terms of the Plan of
Iguala. Iturbide, a former royalist who had become the paladin for Mexican independence, included a special clause in the treaty that left open the
possibility for a criollo monarch to be appointed by a Mexican congress if no suitable member of the European royalty would accept the Mexican crown.
Iturbide became emperor in the ensuing First Mexican Empire.
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DK note: ('Cinco de Mayo' was later and it had to do with getting the French out of Mexico... so Mexico had to gain independence from European powers,
twice!)
