I know, the celebrations are still months away, but all the big institutions are already gearing up. I found this video on the official Bicentenario website with some grand old footage.
I know, the celebrations are still months away, but all the big institutions are already gearing up. I found this video on the official Bicentenario website with some grand old footage.
The Mexile 
Wonderful video. I wish I could think of the name of that song in the soundtrack. Loved the closeup of Zapata’s eyes, what intensity! Que hombre!
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If I come up with the name of the song, I’ll post it here. For the moment, I don’t know either.
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Very nice. Interesting times. Too bad there was so much butchery during the Mexican Revolution. And all for what? Most of the revolution´s aims never came to pass.
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When did a revolution ever truly work out for anyone? But still, like you say, interesting times. Best viewed in hindsight though.
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The American Revolution worked out just fine. We booted you Brits back where you came from, and things started working just great in our country, with the occasional ups and downs that had nothing to do with the revolution. And then you louts became our best international buddies. I think we did a revolution like one should do a revolution. People should get revolution instructions from Americans.
But you are right in that most revolutions are messes that resolve little.
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Who knows, señor, who knows. Had you not had your revolution, then there are a multitude of directions the US could have taken. Perhaps each state would have been given dominion status as Canada later was, and although you’d still be singing God Save The Queen, there’d be no federal entity that so many people seem to despise. Think of how that could have shaped the world…for better and worse.
Of course, it can be argued that the concept of the dominion status given to Canada and others was as a direct result of the US revolution. Mights and possibilities are pointless but fun!
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I love watching the Revolution films — especially, the celebratory dinners. Simply to figure out who was going to shoot his fellow revolutionary within months.
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If ever you make it to Xochicalco, the museum has a whole load of revolution photos with descriptions of who killed whom and when!
And your comment was, I’m pleased to say, the 1,000th comment on my blog! 🙂
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I don’t think I have ever been so pleased to be such a nice round number.
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You are also, by far, the biggest source of visits to my blog. When that reaches a round number, I’ll let you know what it is!
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