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At the time, creolles, people who were born in the New World, but were full-blooded Spanish, felt oppressed and developed an entirely new identity. That day, Hidalgo kickstarted a war between Spain and Mexico, which eventually led to Mexico's independence in With Mexico's strong influence to Texas' culture, it's no wonder Texans always go big on the holiday with parties, festivals and performances from ballet folklorico and flamenco dancers.
This year the holiday lands on the second day of Hispanic Heritage Month, which will run through Oct. Following the war, those born in Europe were expelled from Mexico. The movement for Mexican independence, officially proclaimed in , had several precursors.
The movement that began in was the first that attracted large numbers of the population, most notably the indigenous peasants. Miguel Hidalgo was a criollo who was more concerned with the daily needs of his parishioners than their spiritual ones. He was tired of the constant poverty and mistreatment the people received from the peninsulares , or the Spanish administrators who came to New Spain for profit.
Hidalgo introduced new industries such as wool weaving, carpentry, and bee keeping to help the economic condition of the peasants and started a reading group with like-minded criollos. New Spain had been in constant political turmoil since Napoleon seized the Spanish throne in The Napoleonic threat united the criollos and mestizos , offspring of mixed marriages between Spanish and Amerindian. As the literary societies that Hidalgo initiated grew in popularity, a date was set for the declaration of revolution: 8 December Months before the date arrived however, the plan was revealed to the authorities and the leaders were sought by the Spanish officials.
Deciding that the time had come to ignite the people, Hidalgo rang the church bells in the early morning hours of 16 September, calling his parishioners to mass. No one knows exactly what Hidalgo said that early September morning. Dozens of different versions have come down to us today, but each speech has a common theme. The priest was calling his people to fight to restore the true religion and protect their natural rights as Mexicans, not as subjects of distant Spain.
The enormous army that Hidalgo was able to muster was comprised mostly of indigenous peasants with criollo leaders and was able to capture many important cities, even threatening the Capital. In early the makeshift army disbanded and Hidalgo was betrayed, tried, and executed. Morelos would lead the various factions that desired independence for the next four years.
In an ironic twist, the conservative Iturbide joined the once liberal revolution in response to the adoption of a liberal constitution in Spain. Although the ideology of the new leaders was not that espoused by Hidalgo and Morelos, the nation was independent and the Mexican people were able to decide the direction of their own future. Every year on the 16th of September the President of Mexico addresses the Mexican people from the balcony of the National Palace with the modern version of the famous Grito de Dolores.
He shouts Vivas! The Grito , or shout, caps a day of festivals in Mexico City and other urban areas and ushers in a new year of independent Mexico.
Perhaps most importantly, it reminds the people of the origins of their nation and those that fought and died so that Mexico may be free. In the Parks connects Austinites to the places they love. Coupon Idea 7. Parks Presents Gift Idea 2 Golf Packages! Christmas in the Community Sing-Along. Coupon Idea 6. Coupon Idea 5. Coupon Idea 4. Holiday Special 3.
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