It's time for the wearing of the green—St. Patrick's Feast Day is the 17th
of this month. In honor of St. Paddy, here is a look at the effects the lads from
the old sod have had on Mexico. Irish in Mexico? Yes, definitely.
For years, playwright Luis Valdez said, "The Irish are the Mexicans of Europe."
He was referring of course to the 800-year history of political intervention, colonization
and exploitation of the Irish by the British, and the hundreds of years of oppression
of the Mexicans by Spain.
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