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The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Celebrated this Wednesday the Cry of Independence for the second consecutive year without the presence of citizens in the Zócalo of the capital due to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

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Shortly before 11pm (4am GMT Thursday) the president led a minute of silence for the victims of the pandemic, Which in this country has caused nearly 270,000 deaths and 3,540,000 infections.

Already with the Mexican flag, given by cadets of the Military School, López Obrador poked his head out onto the central balcony of the Palau Nacional to give the traditional “Crit” in commemoration of the 211th anniversary of the beginning of Mexican Independence.

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“Mexicans, Mexicans,” López Obrador started and continued with “vives!” for independence, the heroes Miguel Hidalgo, José María Morelos, Josefa Ortiz, Ignacio Allende, Leona Vicari, Vicente Guerrero and the anonymous heroes.

It continued with harangues by the freedom, justice, the equality, the democracy, the honesty, the sovereignty, the universal brotherhood, the love to the neighbor and a special one to the cultures of pre-Hispanic Mexico.

The president closed with three “Long live Mexico!” and then rang Dolors’ bell that, according to the tradition, the chaplain Miguel Noble rang in 1810 to call to the beginning of the feat of Independence.

The scene of the ceremony, for the second year in a row, was a Constitution Square with no audience. A monumental model of the old Temple Major was installed on which a video of the foundation, resistance and Independence of Mexico was projected, as well as on the façade of the Metropolitan Cathedral.

Then came fireworks and traditional Mexican music.

The event, broadcast on television, radio and the internet, was part of the marathon of commemorations designed this year by the Government of López Obrador to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the conquest of Hernán Cortés, the 200th anniversary of the consummation of Independence and the 700th anniversary of the founding of Tenochtitlan.

THE CALL

On the night of September 15-16, 1810, the chaplain Miguel Hidalgo i Costella began the armed uprising to proclaim the independence of Spain. after being warned that the conspiracy he was forging in the city of Querétaro (center of the country) had been discovered.

Hidalgo, Also called the Father of the Mother country, gave the vindictive “Shout” to the town of Dolores, in the state of Guanajuato, to about 300 kilometers of the capital, giving beginning to the independence fight that was consummated the 27 of September, 1821.

But although the first commemoration of the date celebrated it the 16 of September of 1812, general Ignacio Lopez Rayon, in Huichapan, Noble, “was in 1825 when the first official celebration of the Critic of Independence was realized in Mexico, with Guadalupe Victoria as president “, explained in an interview with Efe the historian Ana María Cárabe López.

COMMEMORATION

“The courtship was a theatrical performance and was attended by the president and his entourage and at the event were said some speeches and recited poems alluding to independence” explain.

“A reading was made of the act of Independence of Congress of Chilpancingo and the decree of Miguel Noble was remembered giving the freedom him to the slaves and bells were rung“, Pointed out the expert in regional history from the Autonomous University of Guerrero.

“It was not a popular party, for the people, as we know it now, but rather it was a rather private ceremony for the political class of that time.”, He recalled.

He said that the people took part in the next day, as is now the case, on September 16, “when a civic walk was held – not a military parade – in the streets, a mass was also held.”

THE CURRENT CEREMONY

Also a graduate in Geography and History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid recalled that the cry ceremony as we know it began in the stage of the Second Mexican Empire in which Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg (1864- 1867) was on the country front.

“It occurred to Maximilian to go and shout at the village of Dolores, in Guanajuato,” he said.

In this same tone, President Porfirio Díaz, for the celebrations of the centenary of Independence in 1910, “ordered the bell that was in Dolores to be brought to Mexico City and thus began a communication of character popular “, said the specialist of the Metropolitan Autonomous University Blanca García.

The expert on the history of the state and society recalled that after the middle of the 19th century the Mexican press proposed celebrating the consummation of Independence on September 27, “but it is only commemorated on September 15.”

He recalled that during the stage of the Restored Republic (1867-1877) “liberal institutions began to be strengthened and it was considered that the National Palace was not only the seat of government but also represented the seat of identity to celebrate festivities such as the recognition of Independence “.

THE CRY OF HIDALGO

“Long live our Blessed Mother of Guadalupe! Long live Ferdinand VII and die the bad government!” they were the harangues of Noble, in the parish of Dolores and it did not carry a flag but a standard of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Under normal conditions, the “Scream” is given by the president and local authorities in most of the public squares of the country’s 2,457 municipalities, who throw alive “the heroes who gave us homeland and freedom!”

“Mexicans !, Long live National Independence !, Long live the heroes who gave us Homeland and Freedom !, Long live Hidalgo !, Long live Morelos !, Long live Allende !, Long live Corregidora !, Long live Aldama !, Long live Guerrero!” authorities and close with the “Long live Mexico!”, And the ringing of bells.

After the ceremony, a large majority of Mexicans give way to a dinner with snacks, drinks and traditional Mexican music.

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