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Thursday, September 16, 2021 – The Indigenous connection to Mexican Independence Day
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:56:45
Publish Date: 2021-09-16 13:00:23
Description: September 16th is a national holiday in Mexico, but it doesn’t mark the day the country achieved independence from Spain. It commemorates the day a revered priest rallied his townspeople with his Cry of Independence. The country’s Indigenous people were instrumental in the battles that followed, as they fought to get out from under Spain’s […]
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