While driving in recent days, you might have noticed Mexican flags — bright vertical stripes of green, white and red with the national coat of arms in the center — clipped to cars on the road.
It means Mexican Independence Day, Sept. 16, is upon us. Perhaps the most significant holiday in Mexican culture aside from Christmas, it commemorates the cry in 1810 for Mexico’s independence from Spain by the Catholic priest known as Father Hidalgo. Celebrations of “El Grito” typically begin the night of Sept. 15 and continue the next day.
