Planet Kapow 06 : Puerto Vallarta to San Blas

AND SO: Independence Day came upon us. Mexico's Independence Day is usually a pretty big occasion but this year was special - it marked two hundred years since Father Miguel Hidalgo made his famous speech of defiance against the Spanish overlords who had ruled Mexico to that point, the 'Grito de Dolores' - "Death to bad government! Death to the gachupines!". The ensuing war cost Hidalgo his life - he was executed by firing squad, had his body decapitated and his head suspended in a cage for ten years from a building in Guanajuato, until the War of Independence was won in 1821. more: http://www.planetkapow.com/366