By Juan Montoya
Everything was perfect Sunday afternoon for the Fiesta del Sol event that opens the week-long Charro Days Fiesta, this year celebrating its 75th anniversary.
Everything – the dancers in colorful attire, the children in charro outfits, the brush court imprisoning the beardless, and the gringos impersonating Mexicans – was there,
except for the guest of honor, the Sun.
With Mariano "Bean" Ayala of the Brownsville Visitors and Convention Bureau doing the emcee chores in his inimitable style and a conjunto made up of Border Patrol, Customs and ICE agents who would otherwise be chasing some of those present, things got off to a vigorous start at the Charro Days office on Elizabeth Street.
10 comments:
It is too expensive for most families.:(
Gringos impersonating Mexicans? Well why not? Mexicans impersonate Gringos all the time. Or maybe we can just pack all the racial crap in for a while and be one people enjoying a 75 year old pre-Lenten celebration.
El Pinche Gringo
...and then it ends - the booths come down, the chairs are taken away, Elizabeth Street swept and the carnival begins and night nears .... Sombrero blares, shakes, and that, too, ends ....Finally, Sunday .... ...fences are packed, trash gathered, over over ....
At least for a while, it's O.K. to act like a Mexican. A storybook Mexican, of course, not a real Mexican.
$5.00 for the kids to use the only kid ride available (bouncer) Come on Man.
Love it. Watch out for Miss Matamoros. She's hot.
...and the slap slap slap of the chairs being folded, put on trucks, gone gone ....
It is not pre-lenten.
Isn't it really mardi gras, or carnival. All port cities in the Gulf have them, and Matamoros used to be a port city. Don't tell me we corrupted that into a Texan cowboy party.
(75 year old pre-Lenten celebration)
No pre-lent about it. The degredation began the day I got ashes on my forehead. And from the bishop, no less.
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