{"id":67667,"date":"2020-09-15T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mexico-has-a-quieter-independence-celebration-amid-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2020-09-15T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:20:00","slug":"mexico-has-a-quieter-independence-celebration-amid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mexico-has-a-quieter-independence-celebration-amid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mexico has a quieter independence celebration amid pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mexico has a quieter independence celebration amid pandemic<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 15, 2020 |<\/span> 4:20pm <\/p>\n

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\n MEXICO CITY \u2014 Mexicans will celebrate their Independence Day without big public ceremonies for the first time in 153 years Tuesday night due to restrictions on public gatherings caused by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Each year, the president rings the bell that marked the call to arms during the 1810-1821 struggle to win independence from Spain, and shouts \u201cViva Mexico!\u201d<\/p>\n

That shout, or \u201cgrito,\u201d gives the ceremony its name. Independence Day is formally Sept. 16, but has been celebrated the night before for over a century.<\/p>\n

The event has not been cancelled since 1847, during the Mexican-American War, when U.S. troops occupied Mexico City.<\/p>\n

President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador has promised to perform the \u201cgrito,\u201d but only in front of a select number of invited guests.<\/p>\n

L\u00f3pez Obrador usually has no problem with crowds and dislikes wearing face masks, but with over 668,000 cases and almost 71,000 deaths \u2014 the fourth-highest number in the world \u2014 the president app<\/a>arently thought twice about packing the usual 100,000 rowdy revelers into Mexico City\u2019s main square, known as the Zocalo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is ceremony that you can watch on television,\u201d L\u00f3pez Obrador said Tuesday. \u201cWe can all participate from our homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The coronavirus pandemic will be mentioned during the ceremony this year, he said. \u201cWe will remember the dead and their families,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cWe are going to light a torch in the Zocalo, a torch of hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

Security has been so tight in the main plaza \u2014 soldier were dispatched to provide security and prevent gatherings \u2014 that it sparked a warning by church authorities that troops had \u201ctaken over\u201d the area around the Roman Catholic Metropolitain Cathedral, which sits on the northern edge of the plaza. The Archdiocese later clarified that it had been a misinterpretation, and that worshippers would be allowed access to the cathedral.<\/p>\n

The pain hasn\u2019t been felt only in Mexico City. Enrique Alfaro, the governor of Jalisco \u2014 the state famed for tequila and mariachis \u2014 had to cancel a decades-old Sept. 14 parade of \u201ccharros\u201d, or Mexican cowboys, and said Independence Day \u201cwill be without gatherings or mass events, to keep us safe from COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alejandro Murat, the governor of the quintessentially Mexican state of Oaxaca \u2014 known for its cuisine and handicrafts \u2014 said the most patriotic thing people could do Tuesday is to stay home and wear face masks. Murat wrote that \u201cit is important to care for our health and everybody else\u2019s, and that is an excellent way to demonstrate our love for Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michoacan Gov. Silvano Aureolles, who himself is recovering from COVID-19, wrote that \u201cthis year we will celebrate our country\u2019s liberty in a different way, to care for your health, that of your family and everybody else\u2019s.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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