Lily, our secretary extraordinaire, just took some clients to Telmex to get their phone and internet service set up.
They had to navigate through the parades and resulting crowds and traffic.
Every year there are parades celebrating Revolution Day. This is a big deal for all the school kids. The little boys are all dressed up like charros (Mexican cowboys) and/or Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata (heroes of the revolution, with cartridge belts slung rakishly around their necks). The little girls are in gorgeous, long, traditional dresses. Very colorful! Very Mexican! Although they also now have the standard drill teams and baton twirlers.
All the local riding clubs turn out too of course. The Charro Clubs ride along on their dressed up horses, and they themselves are really gussied up, with their big sombreros and suits with braid and sparkles, etc. Suits that would have been the envy of Liberace.
The Revolution was long. From 1910 to 1920. But, it ended the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, ultimately produced Mexico's present constitutional republic, and there has been no serious civil unrest since.
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| Real Photos From the Revolution 1910 -1920 |
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