D15 Colón, Querétaro MEXICO 1882

My children: a new dispensation comes to us today. Will you receive it? Will you free yourselves? Will you recover the lands stolen three hundred years ago from your forefathers by the hated Spaniards? We must act at once. . . . Will you defend your religion and your rights as true patriots? Long live Our Lady of Guadalupe! Death to bad government! Death to the Gachupines!

— Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, “The Cry of Dolores,” 1810

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