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Juan Gabriel at the Monumento de la Patria, Mérida (Diario de Yucatán)

So tonight saw Mimi and I walking to the central plaza and then catching a cab to the Paseo Montejo for the ¡Grito! celebrating 200 years of liberation from colonial Spain. What a crowd! We didn’t leave the house until our [...]

El Grito de Dolores

Flags for sale

We returned to Mérida for the ¡Grito! and the Independence holiday. We’ve been in other cities and towns for this most important of holidays but never in Mérida, I really wanted to be here.

It was fantastic! We were jammed into the Plaza Grande with thousands of others, watched the [...]