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...Sept. 7, 1822, at Ypiranga near Sao Paulo, Brazil's Prince Regent Pedro received a batch of dispatches from Portugal telling of oppressive measures planned for the colony. Then & there Prince Pedro uttered what Brazilians now call the Grito de Ypiranga: "Independence or death!" He revolted against his father the Emperor, declared Brazil independent, became its first monarch, Dom Pedro I. Although Brazil later overthrew his son, Dom Pedro II, and became a republic, Brazilians this week celebrated the 119th anniversary of their independence with as little animosity toward Portugal as U.S. citizens now feel toward Great Britain...
Last week, in real Mexico, Independence Day passed and nothing very much happened. President Lazaro Cardenas went to the village of Dolores Hidalgo in Guanajuato State, stood before a microphone and roared the historic Grito de Dolores (Shout of Independence)-Viva Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, viva la Independencia-which is Mexico's equivalent of the Confederacy's Rebel Yell. Then he made a speech. "Some people are trying to cause a rebellion in Mexico and entice the Mexican people away from the ways of peace," said the President. "An examination of the international situation will cause...
...series of gritos ("cries to arms") supply the names for several Latin American independence days. Mexico celebrates each Sept. 16 her Grito de Dolores, recalling the cry to arms against Spain raised at Hidalgo Dolores in 1810 by "the Father of the Mexican Revolution," Priest Miguel Hidalgo & followers. Cuba's Grito de Baire, anniversary of the uprising against Spain by Cuban villagers at Baire in 1895, is Feb. 24. Last week Cubans observed it with memorable eruptions...
Landing in Havana just in time for the Grito last week, Owen D. Young basked in Cuban sunshine while government sources busily rumored that he brought these glad tidings: that Manhattan's Chase National bank was about to extend for another two years its $20,000,000 Public Works Loan to President Gerardo Machado's hard-pressed treasury...