El Grito at 11:00 p.m. September 15"El Grito" which literally means "the shout" or "the cry" is heard in every Mexican town at 11:00 p.m. every September 15. This celebration ushers in Mexico's Independence Day. This year, 2010, was a very special year. It marked the Bicentennial of Mexico's independence from Spain and also the Centennial of the Mexican Revolution which changed much of life in Mexico for both peasants and landowners alike.
This cry was first shouted in the small town of Dolores in the state of Guanajuato by a Roman Catholic priest, Miguel Hidalgo. It is still shouted every September 15. Either the president (in Mexico City), the governor (in state capitals) or the mayor (in other towns) rings a replica of the bell that Father Hidalgo rang and leads the crowd of thousands in the following cry:
Mexicans!
- Long Live the Heroes that gave us our Fatherland!
- Long Live Hidalgo!
- Long Live Morelos!
- Long Live Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez!
- Long Live Allende!
- Long Live Aldama and Matamoros!
- Long Live National Independence!
- Long Live the Independence Bicentennial!
- Long Live the Centennial of the Revolution!
- Long Live Mexico!
- Long Live Mexico!
- Long Live Mexico!
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Do things really get crazy on Independence Day? I remember that Mark and Stephanie planned to stay at home on a similar day in the DR because the streets were so dangerous, with random gunfire, etc. And Mark isn't rattled by much!
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