Mexican Consul at Brownsville Carlos Cue Vega
The Mexican military was well represented at the Grito
Mayor Trey Mendez chums it up with Governmental Affairs Liaison Ramiro Gonzalez
The executive Grito invitees were treated to marimba music.
What would Grito be without a smattering of public officials like city commissioner Ben Neece, a Sirenita and a couple of local lagartos thrown in?
Municipal Judge Rigoberto Flores, would-be district judge candidate Gabby Garcia and former city commissioner Cesar de Leon were some of the VIPs attending the Grito.
The celebration of El Grito associated with the 209th Anniversary of Mexican independence was held at the Texas Southmost Fine Arts Building.
But unlike the ceremony open to the unwashed masses, this one had a decidedly elitist nature.
The guests at the executive celebration held hours before the public celebration had invitations with a bar code that identified them as the better people of the locale.
Historically, the Grito was just the beginning of the independence movement in Mexico.
The start of the struggle for independence took place when criollo priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla signalled its beginning at Dolores, Guanajuato at dawn on the morning of September 16, 1810 with the pealing of the church bells, not on the night of September 15.
The celebration was actually moved to the night of September 15 by the Presidente de la Republica de Mexico General Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz Mori (aka) the dictator PORFIRIO DIAZ, who was born on September 15, 1830 and moved the party up a few hours to use the Grito to celebrate his own birthday.