So Garrido has a little help from his colleagues to perform the battle cry re-enactments in Vineland and Bridgeton, New Jersey, Hazelton, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware. Carlos Obrador Garrido ...

Today is Mexican Independence Day. No, this is not the same thing as Cinco De Mayo. Today is the day Mexico recognizes its independence from Spain, the country which ruled ...

Thursday's 'Cry of Dolores' starts Oxnard festivities. Claudia Boyd-Barrett, Special to The Star. More than 200 years ago, a Catholic priest in the small town of Dolores, Mexico, ...

The Grito de Dolores is the July 4th of Mexico: the celebration of their fight for independence from their own colonial power, Spain. Its rallying cry is “Death to Bad Government,” the tone of ...

The Grito de Dolores is a reenactment of the call to arms made on Dieciséis de Septiembre, or Sept. 16, 1810, by a Catholic priest named Father Miguel Hidalgo in the town of Dolores in the state ...

His “El Grito de Dolores,” or “Cry of Dolores,” which was spoken, not written, is commemorated on Sept. 16 as Mexican Independence Day.

It is the dramatisation of the scene on September 15, 1810 when a priest, Miguel Hildago y Costilla in the poor town of Dolores, rang the parish bell to summon the town flock to mass.

Known as El Grito de Dolores, or the Cry of Dolores, it marked the beginning of the 11-year struggle for independence. Every year since 1902, ...

The cry of Dolores, the cry for freedom, By Owei Lakemfa How wonderful the world might have been without the scourges of colonialism and neo-colonialism. by Owei Lakemfa. September 20, 2024.