ne day just didn't seem like enough for Mexican Independence Day, so Ambassador Jorge Guajardo has been hosting events for most of the past week. New embassy chef Yessica Hernandez got a baptism by fire - she's been cooking almost nonstop since Monday.
A garden reception for diplomats and press kicked things off on Wednesday, as the sounds and aromas of a fiesta drifted around Beijing's Sanlitun embassy district.
On Thursday night the embassy invited the capital's Mexican community for a traditional El Grito celebration. That's the evening bell-ringing and "cry for independence" that sounds annually on Sept 15 in every public square in Mexico, from small villages to the capital city's Zocalo plaza. (It's a cry heard round the world, at every embassy and consulate, too.)
Virtuoso guitarist Paco Renteria kept the rhythm going with a public concert on Friday and a private performance Saturday before setting off on his China tour. Solo Mexican pianist Monique Rasetti wraps things up with a Sept 18 concert of Bach at the Forbidden City Concert Hall.
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