Mexican Independence Day parade a bit smaller due to rain

Mother Nature was literally raining on their parade, but that didn't seem to bother hundreds of people who happily lined the streets of Chicago's Little Village neighborhood Sunday with umbrellas and plastic ...

[karin]

it is sad that Spain left them, if mexico was not independent they might be more like Spain! I really don't know what the pride is about, most had to leave because the rich and middle class refuse to educate and have jobs for those with no skills..most mexicans there refuse to pay taxes for health care, schools, any social programs and then look at the gangs and crime in that country..if I had to hop a fence I would be more angry and not look back...Spain was lucky in this one..what would the difference have been if mexico lost?

[ignacio]

bien venidos a salinas california u.s.a mas bien mexicalifornia back to real life horse parade and the next day el grito de independensia de espanish people now with suba program en el valle de salinas ca explre the people were they camefrom original from mexico or latinoamerica o sudamerica viva mexico en el mundo entero somos una raza que no tenemos frontera extrechando la mano a un mundo en el continente americano originalmente el 16 septiembre la diversidad en la humanidad es que cada mexicano somos ciudadanos universales para el mundo entero asi que bien venidos amigos leer mas seguido el www.salinas californian.com salidos amigos y felizidades el dia del grito ver televisa mexico chanell bay amigos hasta la proxima

[karin]

ign, it is sad that Spain ditched mexico..Spain could of helped the mexicans become educated, have a form of health care...Spain is a beautiful country, they have problems but nothing compared to mexico..that is why I don't understand why the mexicans care about mexico when mexico wants them to flee and then send back $$..

[dana]

If they love Mexico so much, why don't they live there? Oh wait, it's easier to mooch off the American taxpayer than fix Mexico -- which incidentally is a very wealthy nation, consistently around #15 in annual GDP.

[Fed-Up in Chicago]

So proud of so little.

[Yaotl]

karin wrote:

ign, it is sad that Spain ditched mexico..Spain could of helped the mexicans become educated, have a form of health care...Spain is a beautiful country, they have problems but nothing compared to mexico..that is why I don't understand why the mexicans care about mexico when mexico wants them to flee and then send back $$..

HahahahahahehehehehehaHHAH!!!! !!!

VIVA MEXICO!!!!

[THE BaYaReA]

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[karin]

VIVA MEXICO..what does that mean to mexicans living in the US, knowing they have no future in mexico...I don't understand?

[Stop Paying Taxes]

Can someone tell me why the Department of Immigration and Naturalization - along with the National Guard, State Police, Sheriff's Office and Chicago Police Department weren't out in force and didn't do a dragnet sweep of the entire parade?
Round 'em up, ship 'em out - NOW!

[Mo Mas]

ignacio wrote:

bien venidos a salinas california u.s.a mas bien mexicalifornia back to real life horse parade and the next day el grito de independensia de espanish people now with suba program en el valle de salinas ca explre the people were they camefrom original from mexico or latinoamerica o sudamerica viva mexico en el mundo entero somos una raza que no tenemos frontera extrechando la mano a un mundo en el continente americano originalmente el 16 septiembre la diversidad en la humanidad es que cada mexicano somos ciudadanos universales para el mundo entero asi que bien venidos amigos leer mas seguido el www.salinas californian.com salidos amigos y felizidades el dia del grito ver televisa mexico chanell bay amigos hasta la proxima

Yeah, well, you can lick my albondigas.

[Yeah Right]

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'Viva' yo momma!

[thelma]

I have been in the US since i was 3 years old i didn't have a say in it. I love the STATES this is were my life is... If u love mexico u would do something about IT IN MEXICO!! THE COUNTRY IS FALLING apart and nobody wants to do some thing about it... HELP ur country and then you can say that u love it. I pay my taxes here and i volunteer so yes i do love my country!!! even though i wasn't born here.

PS. thank god that mexico isn't like spain.

[Reality Checkpoint]

Puleez don't confuse Spain with Mexico. There weren't any Central American Indians in Spain to...contribute to the Spanish bloodlines.
Spain is a beautiful and magnificant country - I've been there, have you?
Whether up in the north in the mountains, along the Med'n Sea coast, in the interior, on the Balieric Islands in the Med, etc. Madrid and Barcelona are major international class cities [and Madrid will host the 2016 Olympics - incidentally, not Chicago - that can't supress the crime waves, keep its tranportation infrastructure run'g and/or control it's political hacks].
The food in Spain is fabulous, whereas Mexico's is...basic [being: beans, peppers, chilies, limes, pork, chicken, fish, tortias, etc].
You can sum it up this way, Mexico squeezes juice from cactus to distill rough Tequilla from, whereas Spain grows grapes and makes delicate Sherry's. One is crude and course, the other delicate and refined. Also, Spain is a democracy with a fully developed middle-class and infrastructure, whereas Mexico is still a third world country with most of its wealth being controlled by a few families and firms, and the majority of their population but peasants.
The two countries have little in common. Read and book and travel before you expound your ignorance.

[Dre]

Stop Paying Taxes wrote:

Can someone tell me why the Department of Immigration and Naturalization - along with the National Guard, State Police, Sheriff's Office and Chicago Police Department weren't out in force and didn't do a dragnet sweep of the entire parade?
Round 'em up, ship 'em out - NOW!

Tell me something do you work in the fields, plan, grow, harvest ur own food? do all your work in your home??? Do you do ur own mechanical work???? Unless u do then u and only u can say "Round 'em up, ship 'em out - NOW" until then please don't embarrass ur self.

[Livin Free]

Amazing how much we as Americans hate others who show up like our folks did. It seems like the only ones who didn't try to keep everyone else out were the Native Americans, and look what we all did to them!
The Spanish hated the French who hated the Dutch who hated English Protestants who pretty much hated every other Brit that showed up, and then in turn the Irish, then the Germans, who all hated the Scandinavians (they're here; just listen to most Midwestern accents), who then hated the Italians and the Eastern Europeans, who all hated the Asians who all then piled on the Latin Americans and Africans. Looks like we've all started piling on the Middle Easterners now.
I'm sure everyone who's read this forum 1. has some blood relation to an above-named group, and 2. can come up with something derogatory to say about just about every group (myself included).
People are entitled to their opinions, ignorant as they may be. All I ask is people 1. remember that your beginnings may be humbler than you thought, and 2. in the words of the great Mark Twain, "It's better to remain silent, and appear foolish, than to speak out and remove all doubt."

[Not so fast]

No, no Central Americans in Spain... correct. Plenty of Moors, though! Yes, and plenty of olive-skined, curly haired spaniards descended from that little feat of proselitization! And we know they care about purity, otherwise, they wouldn't have propagated the millennium of ignorance through the Inquisition (just try telling a spaniard you're a protestant who thinks the earth is round.. I dare you!).
Of course, they can't keep their own in check, either, less we forget the little Basque insurgency that keeps flaring up. And the last bomb I heard in a Chicago subway was on the radio and claimed a recording career, not a life, so don't tell me Madrid has it's transit in better order than Chicago. And any Daley is more likeable than that turncoat Franco you all gave free reign to until, what, the 80's? Oh wait, that's right, you're a democracy now, with that King who just so happens to hang out over there.
Take away limes and tortillas (learn to spell, with that great spanish education of yours), add saffron, and guess what? You have Spanish cuisine. Pick up a cookbook. Or go to a restuarant. Oh yes, and the spanish can't handle the spicy peppers, hence paprika.
And of course, the booze. If the wine's so great why is the national drink, sangria, watered down wine with a bunch of fruit thrown in? Isn't Sherry of Portuguese origin anyway
Last I checked, the history books say those Mexican peasants forcibly removed the Spanish from their country

[ICE]

This is the United States of America. If you want to celebrate mexican independence day go back to mexico!

[karin]

you know if I had to pick between mexico and Spain..it appears Spain would be a bette choice as would most of the mexicans who are forced to flee because they can't get health care, jobs or a education in mexico..that is why I can't figure out what the paradeis about..they can't even live there!

[Franz Borja]

Dear Vikki Ortiz,
The Mexican Revolution and Mexico's Independence War are two different episodes in Mexican history. Sept. 16, 1910 has no meaning whatsoever because nothing happened on that date. I think you have the dates mixed up.

Mexico's Independence War started on Sept. 16, 1810. A hundred years later on November 20th 1910, the Mexican Revolution started. Those wars were fighting against very different issues.

In reply to other readers comments, I think that if it weren´t for this historical episode, the US of A would be a much smaller country than it is today.

[Dany]

HAHAHHAHAA

ok, seriously yall are hilarious
"This is the United States of America...go back to Mexico"
Thats the only banter you can come up with?

AMericans hate the world but too bad that inward looking culture is coming back to hurt you