Teach September 16! El Grito de Dolores, Mexican independence, and the Zapatistas
September 16 is the anniversary of “El Grito de Dolores”, a speech made in 1810 by the catholic priest, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, in the town of Dolores located near Guanajuato in the center of Mexico. Hidalgo’s speech urged a “resistance” to the “bad government” and helped ignite a process which finally led to the “Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire” on September 28, 1821.