Hidalgo later regretted the bloodbath he had incited with his fateful cry of Dolores. When he made his hasty decision in the pre-dawn hours of September 16, he had not foreseen the mass slaughter of ...

Sept. 15 was chosen as the starting point for Hispanic Heritage Month because it is the anniversary of the Cry of Dolores or “Grito de Dolores," according to Carlos Olave, head of the Hispanic ...

This cry honors the "Grito de Dolores", the Cry of Dolores, that the catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo gave in the early morning ...

16, a holiday often confused with Cinco de Mayo. The day commemorates El Grito de Dolores, or Cry of Dolores, on Sept. 16, ...

The celebration renacts and commemorate the legendary Grito de Dolores or Cry of Dolores, which was a speech made 213 years ago by a Roman Catholic priest who led the Mexican Independence Movement ...

On Sept. 16, 1810, parish priest Miguel Hidalgo issued the Grito de Dolores, or Grito de Independencia (Cry of Independence), encouraging revolt against Spanish rule. He and his followers launched ...

“El Grito means ‘the cry,’ and it refers to the Cry of Dolores in 1810, when Mexicans sought to end Spanish rule, achieve racial equality, and distribute land,” he said. He likened the ...