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By Nicole Abaté Ducarroz Mexican independence from Spain was declared by a parish priest in the village of Dolores, Mexico, on Sept. 16, 1801. His Grito de Dolores was a cry for freedom that began an 11-year war of independence. The week leading up to Friday, Sept. 16, is a time of celebration in Mexico that corresponds to the Fourth of July in the United States. “I have come to … ....
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, (born May 8, 1753, Corralejo, near Guanajuato, Mexico died July 30, 1811, Chihuahua), Roman Catholic priest and revolutionary leader who is called the father of Mexican independence. Hidalgo was the second child born to Cristóbal Hidalgo and his wife. He studied at a Jesuit secondary school, received a bachelor’s degree in theology and philosophy in 1773 from San Nicolás College (now Michoacán University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo) in Valladolid (now Morelia), and was ordained a priest in 1778. He had an uneventful early career, but in 1803 Hidalgo assumed his recently deceased elder brother’s duties as ....
Mexico City, Sep 8 (Prensa Latina) The President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, insisted today on the need to put an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the economic sanctions promoted by the United States as soon as possible. ....