Mexican War of Independence

Do you know what I mean?

I've got to pick it up with him when I talk to him but he owes me a Vegas trip because we were supposed to go to Vegas after the Matias fight but he let me down so I'll pick that up with him but maybe we get out there next year after Hillsborough maybe Cinco not Cinco de Mayo the September Mexican Independence weekend I don't know if it'll add up time wise but I'm sure we'll get over to America sometime soon but once again Grant congratulations great win for Dalton Smith this past weekend wish you all the best with him and obviously everybody else that got in the gym and we'll catch up very soon

thank you Rob you're welcome

Right.

The Mexican War of Independence has succeeded.

The Spanish crown is gone.

And Stephen Austin is holding a piece of paper signed by a defunct empire.

You

got Adele, Karl Marx, and Spanish or Mexican independence.

Yeah.

Nothing too sad or too grand happens on my birthday as far as America goes.

But the other thing is, even then...

During the Mexican War for Independence, the first one, there was all this Mexican nationalism, and you have Californians calling themselves Mexicanos.

And then after California or Mexico is established, they start treating California like a colony.

All of a sudden, the people who are already here get pissed off that all these decisions are being made in Mexico.

There are a lot of things that I want viewers to get out of this.

Um, the first is a bit of a bee in my bonnet, which is just, I would really love people to know that Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day.

[laughs] It is the Day of the Battle of Puebla, where local Mexican forces, the Zapatistas, were able to hold off, uh, Napoleon's army.

So that's one thing.

Um, well, congratulations on the work.

Of course, I will link to your home base there, isabelcanas.com. Um, the book is The Hacienda, and, uh, it has been described as Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence about a remote house, sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches.

Of course, uh, I, we wish you the best of luck with your fear of the dark, but do come back and visit us in the future.

Is there anything else you want to leave us with?

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I think it takes place, like, right after the Revolutionary War in Mexico, so it, I think it, uh, they suc- seceded from Spain.

Mm-hmm.

And she unfortunately doesn't, didn't have, like, the best, like, social standing, so she found, like, she found this guy to marry who owns this hacienda.

This was a tweet put out on, uh, the American Independence Day.

Uh, and then, and then the tweet she put out on Mexican Independence Day.

Let's see if your trained eye can see the difference between the two sentiments.

Here's American Independence Day.

Palestine made its way in there, too.

That's something.

All right, so here's the Mexican Independence Day.

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