Today Día de la Constitución in Mexico is being observed. It celebrates the promulgation of the Mexican Constitutions of February 5, 1857 and February 5, 1917.
According to the US Library of Congress website on the history of the Mexican Constitutions, the former “starts out by saying that all men are free and that by merely setting foot on Mexican soil one is set free” thus outlawing slavery many years before it was abolished in the U.S. And, the latter “came with significant social reforms to labor laws, and provided for equality in treatment without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, social or political condition, among other reforms…. What is also more evident with the most recent Mexican constitutions is a deliberate movement toward secularism.”
Schools, banks, and some businesses are closed but, other than that, not much seems to be happening here in Oaxaca. So, I will post photos I took a few days ago of the new color changing lights that now illuminate the palm trees along Calle Constitución in Oaxaca — the result of the previously mentioned massive decorative lighting project that began last October.
Does that put you, In the Mood?
Mexican Peso Converter
View From Casita Colibrí 
Oh — is THAT what those things are? I saw them the other day, also all the new street light fixtures being installed.
Am I a monster of negativity for thinking that this is the kind of crap URO was wasting money on when there are so many other pressing needs here?
Great report, though, as always from you.
A great read , especially of that in the “Mexican Constitutions” ..how History has its way of presenting itself; Ironies, conundrums . et al.
Thanks much , so very informative !!
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