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Article #5624Re: Mexican, U.S. histories have long been intertwined
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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:11
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:11
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:56:17 -0700 (PDT), Jose <pablo31@todito.com> wrote: >By Gene E. Bigler >University of the Pacific >September 18, 2010 12:00 AMMexico celebrated the bicentennial of its >independence Thursday, and it's remarkable how much of that experience >it has shared with the United States. > >Our success as "the first new nation" helped inspire that first grito >in 1810 and the costly struggle of Mexican patriots to free themselves >from Spanish tyranny. And though the new state started with a >monarchy, the appeal of U.S.-like republican and federal institutions >soon became a central part of a long, debilitating conflict for >control of the government. > >http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100918/A_OPINION03/9180316/-1/NEWSMAP Mexico was so fond of people freeing themselves that when the people in Texas, that Mexico had given land grants to and had invited there, decided they wanted to be free of Mexican rule, Mexico siad OK, you've got your own country. Oh wait, that's not what happened. Remember the Alamo.
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