{"id":6344,"date":"2017-09-24T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2017-09-24T13:08:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T17:08:26","slug":"twin-earthquakes-expose-mexicos-deep-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=6344","title":{"rendered":"Twin Earthquakes Expose Mexico\u2019s Deep Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Early in the morning on Sept. 16, 1810<\/a>, priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang the bell of his church in the small town of Dolores, near Guanajuato, Mexico. His parishioners gathered round, and he urged them<\/a> to revolt against Spain\u2019s two-year-old Napoleonic government.<\/p>\n

Hidalgo\u2019s call to arms, which later became known later as the Grito de Dolores (Cry of Dolores)<\/a>, triggered the Mexican War of Independence. Every September 15, the president of Mexico takes to the balcony of the National Palace in Mexico City to reenact<\/a> it.<\/p>\n

This year, just a week before Independence Day, a historic earthquake struck Mexico\u2019s southern coast<\/a>, killing nearly 100 people<\/a>. So President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto added a poignant element to his Grito by including in the incantation a reference to the impoverished states that were most devastated<\/a> by the quake, crying \u201cLong live the solidarity of Mexicans with Chiapas and Oaxaca!\u201d<\/p>\n