Thread by @crizteeneeta

This video below is cute!! 🤗

Tonight at midnight (10 pm Pacific time), Mexico 🇲🇽 declares its Independence as a re-enactment, to commemorate its independence.

It’s tradition, that only the sitting president at the stroke of midnight, gives the independence yell...

https://twitter.com/OneCabrera_/status/1305937818275831808

For many people who thought, Cinco de Mayo was our independence day, it is not. Mexico’s day of Independence is actually September 16th, which is why the president declares it at midnight.

Everyone calls it #GritoDeIndependencia but it’s actually The Cry of Dolores. So 210 years ago Roman Catholic priest, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, rang his church bell and gave the call to arms that triggered the Mexican War of Independence.

The president stands at the balcony of the national palace and rings the same bell 🔔 qué el Padre Hidalgo rang, 210 years ago. This has always been done over looking the people of Mexico 🇲🇽

But because of the #COVID19 pandemic, it will be done virtually.

If you have never seen it, I hope you get to some day witness it live or at least on TV.

Although I am a first generation Mexican American 🇲🇽🇺🇸 woman, born to Mexican born parents,

This day of Independence, is always special to me. It is how I was raised. From spending every summer there to visiting family and celebrating Christmas there. The foods, the colors, the people, the sounds. It is in me and a part of who I am...

So if you want to hear the president give this traditional Cry of Dolores, tune into any Mexican channel or watch it streaming online.

Here is the declaration from last year
#QueVivaMexico #GritoDeIndependencia #GritoDeIndependencia2020