Tonight Mexico celebrates the 211th anniversary of the beginning of its struggle for the independence of the Spanish colony, with the traditional Cry of Independence. For the second year in a row, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will give his shout in solitude from the main balcony of the Palau Nacional. The pandemic once again frustrates the possibility of the crowd gathering in the Zócalo of the capital to witness the ceremony. In Aristegui, the historians Alfredo Ávila and Alejandro Torres tell us about the myths and realities of that morning of September 16, 211 years ago, when the chaplain Miguel Hidalgo i Costella threw a harangue at Dolores, Hidalgo, who is considered as the beginning of the country’s feat of independence.