00:00We're going to live to Mexico as a nation marks the 216th anniversary of its independence with a civic military
00:06parade.
00:06Let's listen to the statement of the president of the Mexican nation.
00:13In the city of Mexico, one of the first was Francisco who expressed one of the main ideas of that
00:24time.
00:26The king might be missing, but the people remains, and sovereignty must return to the people.
00:39For his ideas, he was imprisoned, and he was later appeared dead.
00:50When the doors closed, conspiracy began.
00:54Men and women arose willing to die for their ideas of freedom, and in the conspiracy participated Miguel Hidalgo,
01:06who was the priest of the Dolores town, Ignacio Allende, captain of the dragons, of the queen, Miguel Dominguez,
01:17Juan Aldama, capitán del ejército, Mariano Basolo, militar, Ignacio Pérez, alcalde, y los hermanos, emérito, y epigmenio González, comerciantes.
01:31Cuando fueron descubiertos, Hidalgo encabezó la rebelión.
01:36When they were discovered, Hidalgo led the rebellion.
01:39There are different versions about the independence cry.
01:44Pero es de reconocer que recuerdo con los textos de Pedro García,
01:47according to some text.
01:49Pedro García, who was present on that evening, Hidalgo said words that 216 years later,
01:57we still move, compatriotas, compatriots.
02:03There is no longer for us a king or tributes.
02:08That shame only benefits.
02:14We have carried them for three centuries as a symbol of tyranny and servitude.
02:19It is the time of our freedom.
02:23We must defend it from the tyrants and march in front of men that want to be free.
02:32Without homeland or freedom, we cannot reach happiness.
02:39And after came the cry, long live the America for which we are going to fight for.
02:46Hidalgo always referred to the independence of all America,
02:50to the nations that had to emerge when breaking the dominion of the Spanish Empire from the continent.
02:58From Dolores, he led a company by a small group, around 12 men.
03:04While he moved, they turned into dozens, and dozens turned hundreds, and hundreds thousands.
03:19When they got closer to Mexico City, they decided to withdraw, likely to avoid a massacre.
03:27And from there, he went to Guadalajara, where he established the first insurgent government.
03:33In those four months, only four months, that the outburst lasted,
03:39he listened to the people.
03:41Along the people, he built a political agenda.
03:46And most importantly, he abolished slavery.
03:51People claimed that no human being can be treated as a merchandise in this land.
03:58With that, important truth emerged in the fight of our people.
04:04Justice, dignity, liberty.
04:09It was the first abolishment of slavery that occurred in the American continent.
04:15What put Mexico in the vanguard in terms of human rights and social rights.
04:21Six months later from the uprising, on March 21st, 1811,
04:29he was detained by the Royalist Army and executed on July 30th, 1811.
04:37He was decapitated, and his head together to the other companions were cruelly hanged as a warning symbol in every
04:47corner.
04:50There they remained for 11 years.
04:57In the trial, before his execution, they tried to deletitimize his cause.
05:07However, Hidalgo remained firm in defense of his ideals,
05:12assuring that he worked following his conscience.
05:18To those who accused him, he told them,
05:22open your eyes, Latin Americans.
05:24Do not let yourself be deceived by our enemies.
05:27Those are politicians that worship money.
05:32Their threats only seek to oppress.
05:36The heroic action of the beginnings of the independence struggle of Mexico
05:41was the awakening of the people, and the beginning of the awakening of a continent.
05:46It was the uprising of those that had lived under oppression
05:50and decided that there was a time to conquer their freedom.
05:56For this action, we named Hidalgo the father of the homeland.
06:02Still today, they want to take away from his heroism and vision.
06:08Deep down, what they do not forgive him is that
06:16he called for independence and led to the independence
06:19through a real popular rebellion.
06:21With the bravery of a humble people that led by a brave man
06:25stood up to conquer sovereignty and justice.
06:34To the heroic feat of Miguel Hidalgo,
06:37Jose Maria Morello followed,
06:39to whom the father of the homeland had charged
06:42to lead the flame of independence from the south
06:46and take the strategic port of Acapulco.
06:50That's why he was not only a brave priest of deep convictions,
06:55but a great strategist capable of creating an insurgent army
07:00that could not be defeated and reach legendary victories.
07:05But Morelos understood a fundamental truth.
07:11Weapons can win battles, but only ideas can truly fund nation.
07:30It was from there where he cast away all possessions and values of all Europe.
07:40And he shows for himself the name that truly expressed commitment
07:45with the homeland, the servant of the nation.
07:48From that deep humility, he spoke the words
07:52that will become the soul of our land, the feelings of a nation.
07:59From that Congress came the constitutional decree
08:04for independence of Mexican-Americans.
08:11That work not only proclaim independence,
08:13it spoke above all of dignity.
08:16Abolía para siempre la esclavitud y las castas.
08:19Mandaba moderar lo pulencia y la licencia.
08:21It abolished forever the caste and slavery
08:27and set the demand so that all rights reach everyone equally.
08:37Sovereignty in the hands of the people
08:40that has defined us for so long.
08:44As we're being captured, Morelos faced execution.
08:48Parecía que la noche caía sobre el movimiento.
08:50It seemed that night was coming down on the movement,
08:54but a few men kept the fire of rebellion alive.
08:59Among them, titans like Vicente Guerrero
09:03y Guadalupe Victoria.
09:07Consistency ripped its work.
09:10Independence was achieved.
09:13The historic embrace between the insurgent warrior,
09:17Yagustin, coming from the royalist army.
09:23But the birth of the homeland was turbulent.
09:28When Iturbide betrayed the republican ideal,
09:32when he crowned himself emperor, all independent fighters
09:37went back to the fighting field to overthrow him
09:40and defend liberty.
09:43That's how in 1824 came about the first constitution.
09:49The path, however, was filled with storms.
09:54Spain resisted to accept its defeat
09:56and they did not recognize our independence until 1836
10:03after having tried to one last and desperate pre-conquest in 1829.
10:12Mexican soil then became the desire of empires of the world.
10:17We resisted the wounds of the wars against France
10:22between 1838 and 1839.
10:27We suffered the unfair invasion of the US from 1846 to 1848
10:34that took away over half our territory.
10:39And we once more suffered the second French intervention,
10:43which was definitely defeated by a brave people.
10:51We must also not forget because memory is the soul of the free peoples
10:57that throughout the 19th century as is happening in current times,
11:03two projects of nations face each other.
11:06On one side, a side of the conservative
11:13that in their desperation applauded the foreign interference
11:20and brought Maximiliano Diaz.
11:22The other side, the one of liberal ideas, Republican ideas,
11:28and of social justice that rather prefer to give their life
11:33than surrendering, the historic feat of our people,
11:38of our heroes, is the one that today motivates us,
11:43is the example of our people that has always fought to receive its destiny.
11:51It's the pride of a people that knew how to accompany Hidalgo.
11:56Hidalgo is the pride of those that take in their own hands their destiny.
12:05That's why it's a responsibility of all Mexican generations
12:09to honor what was paid with life, to defend the homeland,
12:16to take care of sovereignty, and make a reality the social justice
12:20for which so many have laid down their lives.
12:25Because although some want the opposite,
12:29Mexico cannot be explained without their noble people, brave.
12:35It can also not be explained without their constant struggle
12:38for the sovereignty and independence.
12:50Something that has accompanied our people
12:53throughout more than two centuries.
12:55The conviction that liberty is conquered,
13:00sovereignty is defended, and the just and dignified home
13:04that is built every day.
13:06On September 16th, day of the independence,
13:12is the life memory of Mexico.
13:15It means always to keep our heads head high
13:20and cry out that Mexico will never be a colony
13:25or a protectorate of anyone.
13:27Mexico does not surrender, does not kneel,
13:32and Mexico is never for sale.
13:37Long live the independence, long live sovereignty,
13:48long live forever Mexico.
13:51Viva Mexico, viva Mexico, viva Mexico, viva.
14:10We are listening to a statement by the president of Mexico,
14:14Clara Chainsbaum in this ceremony, in honor of celebrating
14:18the anniversary of Mexico's independence from colonial rule.
14:23During her speech, she was going over those critical hours
14:27that led to the independent struggle of the Mexican of the Mexican Republic as
14:33he was going over the men the leaders the men that led the certain the actions
14:38that would later result in the independence of Mexico and she also went
14:42over the importance of continuing working day by day to protect the
14:45sovereignty of the Mexican nation especially this speech comes in a
14:49context of geopolitical tensions we know of trying of pressure of foreign
14:53pressure to try to curb the sovereignty of nations especially in the Latin
14:58American Union Latin American Union for which the Mexico stood firm in defense of
15:02its sovereignty and its rights
