In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month and Mexican Independence Day on September 16th, many people gathered downtown Monday to celebrate at the Fiesta Mexicana outside the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall near the Tucson Convention Center.

Its an event that has been going on for decades to commemorate Mexicos independence from Spain in 1810, put on by the Mexican Consulate and Visit Tucson.

Lee Wong, Deputy Consul of the of Consulate of Mexico in Tucson, says every year in Mexico City central plaza, the president of Mexico gives the traditional ceremony called 'El Grito' and every ambassador in every consul of Mexico abroad replicates that in and around their jurisdiction.

This means that we are welcome in the United States. We have been here in the Southwest for centuries and that the new genera

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