Know San Luis Potosi of the Bicentennial

PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK "A WRITING TOUCHED BY GRACE: JUSTO SIERRA BLANCA ESTELA TREVIÑO"

Casa Cultural Centre N 6
In front of the Park Principal, Historical Center

April 26 at, 19:00
San Francisco de Campeche

Presentation of the book MEMORIA CONTANTE Y SONANTE

The Special Committee of the Celebrations Independence Bicentennial and pf the Centennial of the Mexican Revolution of the Senate is pleased to invite you to the presentation of the book

Memoria Contante y Sonante

Banknotes, coins and medals of Independence and the Revolution

Central courtyard of the Senate headquarters, Xicoténcatl 9, Historical Center, Mexico City Confirmations: 53453000 Ext 5237 / 5240.

With special thanks for this information to the Special Committee of the Celebrations Independence Bicentennial and pf the Centennial of the Mexican Revolution of the Senate.

The Masonic Binational Program

INAH Cultural Tours in April

A reflection of the political program of Francisco Villa

On April 29, at 17:00 o'clock, the opening will be given by Ms. Victoria Labastida, Mayor of San Luis Potosí and Architect Juan Carlos Machinena Morales, Executive Secretary of the commission "San Luis De La Patria" 2010.

At 17:30 o'clock. begins the main Conference: A REFLECTION OF THE POLITICAL PROGRAM OF FRANCISCO VILLA by the archaeologist Tomás Villa Cordova (Researcher of theNational Museum of Interventions INAH and grandson of Francisco Villa).

The moderator will be the architect Juan Carlos Machinena Morales, Executive Secrteary of the Bicentennial and Centennial Commission of "San Luis De La Patria" 2010.

Conference IN THE SHADOW OF MAXIMILIAN

Campeche Library and the Society of Historians of Campeche A.C. as part of the Bicentennial Celebration of the Beginning of National Independence and of the Mexican Revolution,

PRESENT
In Campeche cycle XIX and XX centuries

THE CONFERENCE
IN THE SHADOW OF MAXIMILIAN

By: Damian Enrique Can Dzib

Friday April 16, 2010
18:00 o'clock

Art and Projections Room Campeche Library

Speech of the Most Powerful Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council for Mexico

HONORABLE MEMBERS OF PRESIDIUM, REPRESENTATIVES OF PROGRESSIVE ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS OF MEXICO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC, ALL:

With the spring equinox, we commemorate the Mexicans, the birth of Don Benito Juárez. We remember the hero, as the poet Carlos Pellicer said: “in whose temples the sun has engraved its cradle”. We pay a tribute to Mexico's elder state man, converted by his virtues in the universal example of thought, speech and progressive practices.

Evoking and glorifying the Grand figure of Juarez, at two hundred and four years of his birth, is a Republican action of admiration and recognition from the people of Mexico to an exceptional man, no doubt, the Builder Grand Master of the modern state, of the secular state, in our country.

This is a huge commemoration of a historical relevance, given that this year the Nation is celebrating, beside the Bicentennial of the insurgency’s beginning for independence and Centenary of the Mexican Revolution’s beginning, those 150 years from the Reformation Triumph, the historical movement of the country, liberator of the Mexican consciousness and model for men and peoples of the world.

We participate in this solemn civic act, because we keep alive in our memory the great epic of Juarez and his generation.

We remember of a past that makes us proud, cast it in the fight against obscurity and retrogression; and, also, we testify our progressive philosophy in front of this monument raised in memory of Homeland Bicentennial, the Father of the Americas.

From thought to word and action of Juarez, from his value, loyalty, patriotism and belief reformer, it was born the progressive vocation of the Mexican people.

Benito Juarez will be always for us the paradigm of patriotism; of honor, dignity and decor of the Republic. He will be always our inspiration through its undeniable character, through his value and his talent.

Juarez will continue to be the great symbol of ideology’ progress to combat the historical enemies of the Republic: the reaction and the conservatism. Juarez will be in the minds of new generations of Mexicans, the leader and guide in the fight for freedom, equality and justice.

For him, tragic, irrational and anti-historical, concluded that from the highest spheres of government, alleged the biggest civic celebration of this year, that of the 150 years since the Reformation Triumph, which means, no more and no less, the commemoration of the 150 years that we lived in a Modern, secularized and decentralized State, i.e., a Secular State.

From the greatest transcendence, for Mexico's institutional life, results this year the celebration of the Reformation triumph, occurred when the constitutional government army, under the command of General Jesus Gonzalez Ortega, defeated the groups, giver of coup d’etat, of the conservative Miguel Miramon, in Calpulalpan in December 22, 1860, when he received the President Juarez in the City, in Puerto de Veracruz, two days later after the bulletin of what did occurred.

But we must say loud and clear: the Reform was not just a civil war was to separate church and state; if only it were the historical significance of the Reformation, could not be too much to celebrate. In a broad vision of our history, the Reform was the meeting point of the inherited model from the Spanish colony, which has maintained, for more than three centuries, the religion and the clergy as instruments of social control for the economic exploitation and political domination, in the service of a class.

For this reason, to the conservative heirs, now hidden in the Republic Government, it resulted to be essential the celebration of the 150th years anniversary of the Reformation Triumph; but also because of this it would mean bringing an heroic tribute to the Mexican generations who thought, planned and executed the grand project of Mexico's liberation: the progressive Reform of the Mexican State, led by the most illustrious of our fellow citizens, President Benito Juarez.

Therefore, we must repeat to the national reaction party and its right conservative government that it will be impossible to mutilate and cut off our history, and that they will not require the removal from this of this giant figure's Benito Juarez.

In the cruel and fleshless confrontation of the Mexico’s nineteenth century, between two ideological currents and two economical, political and social projects, that have survived until today, it was the Pures Party at the radical reformers who prepared the birth of the modern State; also its philosophical doctrine and ideological principle it was the secularity; they are strictly lawful, the secular current Mexican parents.

Thus, the secularity gave birth to the fight for the Republic survival, in spite of the scams and foreign invasions; and the Modern State was the way for giving viability to the Mexican Nation.

After such hard evidences, the secularity became today, in the fundamental political decision, with conviction, deepen in the good Mexican conscience, even if we continue the great battle to bring it into our Constitution; but in this doctrine philosophical and ideological principle arose, over those 150 years, the mutual respect between the State and the religious associations, independent of religious sign.

For this, the Reform is on the our national history axis and this is also the bridge connecting the line time between the consuming stage of national independence and the first years of the independent Mexico with the Mexican Revolution. Without the Reform knowing, our history is obscure and it dark the full explanation of the struggle for political power and economical wealth today.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

Celebrating this honor of Don Benito Juarez, on the occasion of the 204th year of his birth, we initially through the all national territory the big commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Reform Triumph, which is nothing else than the civic ceremony of the Republic for the 150 years of life of the modern State, the Secular State, in Mexico; and we bring a fair recognition to the merit of that great generation of Mexicans, who felt the democracy basis to which had aspire the good Mexican.

Because there is no political equilibrium without the secular state; or economic equity, or social justice and, therefore, there is no democracy.

With a post-modern State, religious or of religion of State should continues to be, on our national territory, the slavery, redound and the encomienda.

Juarez “Knight Errant of the Free Conscience” and Reform generation was inspired by the conviction and the principles which today are the ones who guide the thought, the word and the practice of the progressive men and women of Mexico.

In our time, giving up to the fight for a Secular State should be an indulgence or a frivolous complicity with those who, unfortunately, from the government, promotes the economic inequity, the political imbalance and the social injustice.

Let me conclude by quoting the "Ode Civic" of the Carlos Pellicer poet: "Juarez, you have not concluded"; "The day when the Strait reach to listen your bronzes, all of us we will be strong, we will be all great".

I SAID. THANK YOU

DR. ONOSANDRO TREJO CERDA

April billboard

San Luis Potosí Bicentennial - Masons of the Nation

A little about Mexico

Mexico is known formally as the United Mexican States and is a federal, representative and democratic republic, located in Latin America. Mexico has border to the north with the United States of America, to the east with the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, to the southeast with Belize and Guatemala, and to the west with the Pacific Ocean. Its territory area converts it into the 15th largest country in the world, by covering almost 2 million square kilometers. In Mexico are living over 107 million people, being the most populated Spanish talking nation in the world. It is the second economy in Latin America after Brazil, and 4th in the Western Hemisphere.