“On this day,” Martez explains,
“we pay tribute to a man who helped
set Mexico free from the Spanish. You
see, for a long time, the Spanish were
in charge in Mexico. All of the land
in Mexico was theirs. They could tell
Mexicans what to do. They made the
Mexicans do all of the hard jobs. Then
one man got tired of it and set out to
make things better .”
Martez points at a picture and says,
“This is the man who started it all. His
name was Hidalgo. He made a speech.
He said the Mexicans should be free
from the Spanish .”