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Judy King, Editor
Living at Lake Chapala
September is a great time for celebration. Every year the middle of this month is filled with the special
activities that culminate with Mexico's Independence Day on 16 de Septiembre. If possible, the 2010
Bicentennial celebration plans are bigger and better than ever with every city, town, and village in
Mexico going all out to celebrate the anniversary of Father Miguel Hidalgo's cry to arms against the
Spanish in 1810.
The rebel army of Mexico grew from the original handful of Father Hidalgo's parishioners to hundreds
of thousands in just a matter of months. Two months after war was declared on September 15, 1810, José
Antonio Torres had assembled 20,000 rebel fighters from all of the villages in this part of Jalisco
for his march on Guadalajara.
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