Ruminations of an Expatriate

Downtown Xalapa is adorned with red, white, and green flags, banners, and tinsel hanging from building and across the principle streets. Red, white, and green, for those who don’t know, are the colors of the Mexican flag.

The photo above shows the adornments to the city’s main cathedral and, in the distance, city hall.

September 16 is a day of celebration, which actually begins the night before, to commemorate Father Miguel Hidalgo’s 1810 issuance of his famous El Grito, or call to arms against the Spanish colonialists, from a balcony in Dolores, a town which now carries his name. Within a couple of weeks Guanajuato became the site of the opening battle of Mexico’s ten year war of independence, with the successful rebel attack on the Alhondiga de Granadies.

Each year on Independence Day the President of the Republic rings Hidalgo’s bell, now located in the National Palace, and reenacts issuance of El Grito de Dolores.

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