Independence Day Tragedy in Morelia
Tuesday September 16, 2008
In Morelia, Michoacan during Independence Day festivities last night, two hand grenades were thrown into the crowd gathered in the city's Melchor Ocampo Plaza. Eight people were killed and many more were injured. Throughout Mexico people are shocked and outraged at these events, which are particularly disturbing because they came during a national celebration and targeted innocent party goers. It is speculated that drug gangs are responsible for the violence.
Leonel Godoy, governor of the state of Michoacán declared a day of mourning, and other Independence Day festivities to be held in the city were canceled. Elsewhere in the country, festivities took place as usual.
Suman 7 muertos por explosiones en Morelia, La Jornada
The Night Morelia Lost its Innocence
Jennifer, I hear you. I went to the Grito in Oaxaca with my kids and it deeply saddens me to think that that’s the last time we’ll be able to experience it as the light and festive occasion we’ve always known it to be.
we all need to step it up to help prevent this. We have to build profesionals who will help us export ideas, inovations, inventions, etc, and not drugs, cheap labor and only farm good a long with other minor goods. We have to start this from home and the government has to help those who need to finish school and crate enough jobs for when they finish school the graduetes perform their carreers and don’t end up selling tacos, or leaving the country. We Latinos have a lot of potential and can do better then allowing others to wash our brains to join the mafia. But first we all have to come together, the parents, the govt. And the private sector holding most of the wealth in Mexico.