ANTIGUA, GUATEMALA
ON Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:38 p.m.
On Independence Day, obtained in 1821 and celebrated every year on Sept. 15, is highlighted by parades in all towns in Guatemala. Children in all schools across the country, are practiced in the weeks preceding the festival to play the drum. Before the parade the students will visit a village that is not theirs (different each year) running with a torch they bring people to the other village. The same day they are trying to drum as loud as possible, to show their patriotism.
not forget the lighting of firecrackers (which are not fire fireworks and serve only to make noise) that are a tradition here (and a source of great joy!). Each party or during the weekends, people light firecrackers. A mystery that foreigners settled here still do not understand!
When the Spaniards landed on the coast of Yucatan in 1519, the building of Mayan cities had continued for centuries (the classical period of ancient Maya civilization located between the 3rd and the 10th century) and the Maya had almost deserted the central region. Those living in the highlands (south) face off against the hordes of conquistadors came West. From that first contact with Europeans, the history of Guatemala is summarized, as the point of view Maya
-three centuries of English colonial rule;
-Independence in 1821 to the Revolution October 1944: 123 years of conservative and liberal regimes dictariaux;
-from 1944 to 1954: a short spring, ten years of democratic interlude;
-1954 to 1984: 30 years of military government, electoral fraud , widespread violent repression and a protracted armed conflict whose legacy is a society polarized, militarized impoverished and decimated the population;
-1985 to today: twelve years of democratization efforts. The Quetzal
The symbol of the country, the Quetzal (also the name of national currency) is a bird of the forests of Mexico and Central America to bronze green plumage, long in the male long feathers and a crest. It is also called bird of paradise because he does not live in captivity!
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