Event to Celebrate Call for Mexican Independence
Community leaders will join thousands of celebrants tonight to commemorate the 188th anniversary of El Grito de Dolores, Mexico’s historic call for independence by one of the country’s greatest heroes.
In 1810, Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a parish priest in Guanajuato state, rang his church’s bell and called upon his countrymen to fight for Mexico’s independence from Spain.
Mayor Richard Riordan will join Mexico’s consul general, Jose Angel Pescador Osuna, at Plaza Olvera in ringing a replica of the bell of Dolores, said Enedino Aguirre, president of the Mexican Civic Patriotic Committee, one of the event sponsors.
Live entertainment will include the Ballet Folklorico of Mexico, directed by Amalia Hernandez.
Festivities will begin at 7 p.m. and the ringing of the bell and the reenactment of El Grito will be at 9:45 p.m..
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