Mexico resumes the celebration of Independence with a massive public after the pandemic

The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, gave this Thursday the first Cry of independence with a massive audience in the Zócalo of the Mexican capital, after the covid-19 pandemic.

After two years, more than 150 thousand Mexicans, from different states of the country, returned to the Zócalo of Mexico City with hats, national flags, plaid shirts, shirts with charro prints, mariachis, and others. All to celebrate the 212 years since the beginning of the fight for Independence.

Others were seen with umbrellas and plastic in the form of a cape to resist the light rain that occurred in front of the National Palace box, which exchanged the public for acts without any people.

The Cry of Independence recalls the call made by the priest Miguel Hidalgo in Dolores, in the central state of Hidalgo, when he initiated the Independence of the Latin American country.

An hour before midnight, President López Obrador walked through the long corridors of the place where he gives daily morning lectures, this time with a massive audience that was waiting for him captive, amid applause, shouts and whistles.

Accompanied by his wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, who wore a long pink dress, he reached the balcony, where the historic Hidalgo bell was waiting for him, the same one that the priest rang to detonate the Mexican independence movement in 1810.

President López Obrador, with a dark blue suit, white shirt and the traditional ribbon with the colors of the Mexican national symbol that sports the emblem of the flag in gold, came out to the box, this time he was not alone.

He appeared on the balcony with Gutiérrez Müller and shouted: "Mexican women, Mexican women, long live Independence!"

He continued: “Long live Miguel Hidalgo! Long live Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez! Long live Leona Vicario! Long live Jose Maria Morelos! Long live Vicente Guerrero! Long live the anonymous heroes! Long live freedom! Long live equality! Long live justice! Long live democracy! Long live our sovereignty! Long live universal brotherhood! Long live peace! ”, He expressed at full volume.

Mexicans, Mexicans, out with corruption! ”, He concluded, as he rang the Dolores bell.

Long live Mexico! shouted the president. Viva!, responded the people in the Zócalo.

Later, the Mexican national anthem was played and those attending the capital's Zócalo sang it.

The fireworks were not lacking either and lit up the sky with the colors green, white and red on the night of the Mexican celebration; although in this commemoration the traditional dinner was not carried out.

GUESTS OF HONOR AND LIVE MUSIC

The Cry of Independence of 2022 began with a massive concert led by the iconic Tigres del Norte, who put thousands of Mexicans to dance and celebrate, prior to the Cry.

In addition to the luxury guests on stage, former presidents and emblematic people of social struggles in Latin America also gathered at the National Palace.

Among them Evo Morales, former president of Bolivia, and José Mujica, former president of Uruguay, who were received by Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard.

“I gave the warmest welcome to Evo Morales and José Mujica, dear friends, fighters for justice and human dignity. They come to accompany the people of Mexico at the invitation of President López Obrador, welcome,” the Mexican diplomat announced on Twitter.

In addition, Martin Luther King III, son of the social activist Martin Luther King, attended, accompanied by his wife Arndrea Waters King, as well as the linguist Noam Chomsky.

Also received were Aleida Guevara, daughter of former Latin American guerrilla Ernesto "Che" Guevara, guest of honor for her activism for world peace, as well as relatives of the Australian journalist and founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, who was recently appointed as "guest distinguished” by the Mexican president.

CELEBRATIONS IN PANDEMIC

In 2020, the year in which the health contingency due to covid-19 began, the Mexican government mounted a light show on the large cement slab with which the phrase was formed: "the flame of hope".

The letters, in red, were accompanied by a silhouette that drew the Mexican territory in the green, white and red colors of the national flag.

In 2021, a pyramid was invested in, a replica of the Templo Mayor, which also commemorated the 700th anniversary of the founding of the original Mexico-Tenochtitlán.

MEXICO AND THE WORLD

The commemoration of the Independence of Mexico was also celebrated in other countries such as Brazil, with the Christ the Redeemer illuminated with the colors green, white and red.

The embassies of China and Qatar also lit their facilities with the colors of the Mexican flag.

Meanwhile, the Eiffel Tower in Paris illuminated its emblematic structure in the national colors of Mexico.