In the last few months, I have seen Mexico City's main plaza, the Zócalo, decorated for Independence Day (September 16th) and for Day of the Dead (November 2nd). Now it is time for Revolution Day (November 20th). Yesterday, I went downtown, and they were putting up viewing stands in front of the National Palace, probably for the political bigwigs to watch the Revolution Day parade.
On another side of the Zócalo, patriotic decorations were hanging from the twin buildings of the city hall, and a portrait in lights of some revolutionary hero hangs over "20 de Noviembre", the avenue which separates the two buildings.
I have not been able to figure out whom that portrait in light bulbs represents.
It is not the easily recognizable face of Emiliano Zapata or Pancho Villa, or even Francisco Madero who initially led the revolt against the dictator Porfirio Díaz in 1910. I thought that it might perhaps be Aquiles Serdán, an opponent of Díaz. The first shots of the revolution were fired when police surrounded the house of Serdán in Puebla on November 18th of 1910. However, I did Google search of Serdán, and he looks nothing like the man hanging over the avenue. (Serdán was bald and had a handlebar moustache.) So, I have no idea who the person honored in lights might be!
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