Mexico City, March 25, 2010.
It's amazing how it is establishing the commemoration of 200 years of independence from Mexico. I went to the socket for the umpteenth time, the truth I'm thinking about moving there, because the fun is being well planned and order.
Last Sunday began my journey watching the ceremony called "middens," these Mexicans that civil partnerships have been established to honor the Aztec traditions, and found almost daily at the side of the cathedral, same place they have created a "church" parallel to the customs brought by the English, and also began to dance as 20 years ago, with drums made from leather and wood, which bear little resemblance to the so-called teponascles, but the noise it made and sea shells, clay flutes, rattles and of course the undisputed sound of snails that are hung on legs, characteristic of its name.
This group has grown and now sell T-shirts with the Aztec calendar, with effigies of eagle warriors, they clean with plants and perfumes, selling wooden figures with different designs of Aztec culture, books, keychains, etc.
These middens are dressed with plumes of feathers and fur loincloth and some loincloth, with obsidian stones, the same material which served the fierce Aztec warriors to make knives and wooden decks are capable of cutting a man almost in half, according to research conducted to date.
So at around 11 am Sunday arrival of spring, we began the ceremony with the traditional burning of copal incense cups and greeting at 4 cardinal points, as did the Aztecs . Speaking words in Nahuatl, which are tonatiuh greetings to the sun. Once the greeting began playing drums and conch shell mounds and some barefoot, dancing. So let them dance in the sun.
I walked toward the plate socket where they have a museum in the square, large enough for the celebration of independence. While reviewing my time, I went to the cathedral to see the shrine and see what time the tour was the bell tower. It's pretty cheap, because they are only 20 pesos or something. In that started the stroke of half-day and see that it is almost pure beautiful sound of bell ringing, which lasted several minutes, impressive ...
It is known almost all Mexicans that March 21 is the birthday Benito Pablo Juárez García, pure Indian Zapotec, born in Oaxaca, that by working hard to learn English, studied law and became judge high court of justice, creator of the law Juárez, to expropriate the property of the church, which according to the time equivalent to two thirds of the land of this nation, or 60%, was president of Mexico, hero the War of Reform, where he was a fugitive from the so-called "Mocha", which would not that be affected the clergy and their property (including rights pantheon, civil registration, etc..) lived and worked in New Orleans twisting snuff, (between años1857-1860) back, they faced the French (battle of May 25, 1862), he went back to the North (1863), where it hit him almost five years of war the "Frenchies" or "Gringos" and Mexicans who went chasing traitors, back again (1867) for not forgiving Maximilian of Hapsburg, and shoot along with two Mexicans since the war of 57, they brought in check, Tomas Mejia and Miguel Miramon.
quickie So pass the National Palace to witness the ceremony in front of the statue of Juarez, who was fused with the cannon balls captured the French in their retreat to Veracruz and later shipment to France.
There is the history of how many times Mexico has been invaded by other countries. Among the known ones are the independence of Spain, the Texan war, war v. United States, the so-called Pastry War against France, have started with a dispute of a French baker, the invasion of the English conquest through Tamaulipas, the French invasion of 30 000 French, Austrians, Poles, Belgians (guard personal Maximilian's wife) and even black Algerians ... that's not counting the attempted purchase of Baja California by the U.S., the landing of an English pirate in Sonora, and in 1914 the American intervention in Veracruz and then tour Grail . Pershing after Pancho Villa back in 1916 with 10 000 soldiers ... ugh, maybe not as European wars but the truth has been eventful fate of Mexico, excluding with our own revolutions and riots. I just tell them and if you look tired and know that I need more and more ... a little known would be the war with the Apaches that lasted about 50 years and many deaths resulted from Chihuahua, Sonora and Durango, etc.
So is the ceremony to the great Don Benito Juárez, who became worthy of the Americas at a convention there in South America for support, which was only moral because they never sent the monetary support they said they would send and it was the same with the Americans despite their own civil war ended two years earlier, told us we could not help more than sending some rifles and in giving us some furniture of war (of course paid for with our money). Even the Americans of that time feared askance at so-called most powerful army at that time, the French army. That was unfortunately defeated by the Prussians to return to their homeland. In fact, that's what saved us, by the little Napoleon was afraid of the Prussians over the gringos (some historians say that the French army arrived with low morale after the defeat in Mexico, some think they were overcome by the new Prussian muskets). So "the Indian" as he said to Juarez took them to do alone ... or better that we Mexicans ...
I also stop a political march to not change the PT, I ate a McDonald's ice cream (very patriotic, but globalization is) and headed to the palace where he admired the mining best equestrian statue of Mexico, the famous horse, monumental bronze of Charles IV, whose face you can see distorted by mental illness and Manuel Tolsá could take form. Some ignorant have treated over the centuries (it was placed in late 1700 in the socket) to found to be a king, but the truth is that art is a work of great and well put him at the memorial, " preserved as a work of art " and not for sentimental reasons for some king of old Europe, to be transferred to the Mining Palace, built by the same Manuel Tolsá. Not fail in Mexico, as a good "turncoat", ie those who switch sides, jacket, he wanted you to satellites (which are, with their asegunes) of some power, but so is the statue Juarez a reminder not only the arrival of spring, but what it cost to be "free" ...
Goodbye my friends
El Quijote uncivilized disoriented in the capital of Mexico, asking them to send a regent gabacho, gringo Russian or perhaps, to tell you how to get the damn weak rally around him ... by the way many tourists go missing, and maybe I'll join with a beautiful blonde to show the city in its 200 th anniversary of independence. What better than to fraternize with the enemy, especially if Roman statues seem like American Beauty that I was in shorts in May 5th street ... uh la la, beautiful ... up liberty, fraternity and equality and other slogans ... ...
Abur
Ps I spent also to eat some bread and butter at the hotel restaurant famous Guillows English ancestry as I remember and then go I believe the building's most beautiful historic downtown building commanded by Don Porfis (Diaz), the post office and opposite is almost like a statue, too, the beautiful Palace of Fine Arts, which by the way someone came up with avioncito to 900 blades in a lattice that is in the above ground before the Palace of Fine Arts, a vent tube (subway) and every time you run your hot air with the bustle of trains, they rise as if alive . Without selling books of all kinds and many restaurants as "opera" which is embedded a bullet that came from the same gun Pancho Villa, in a place of its roof which seems to me I told them that in turn has one of the longest bars in the world built in one piece, if they told me no wrong. Excellent idea to enjoy the city of Mexico in this 200 th anniversary.
Don Quixote. RINCON VICTOR
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