Celebrating Mexico’s long, long fight for freedom

Celebrating Mexico: The Grito de Dolores and the Mexican Revolution opens today at the Green Library. Stanford is joining Berkeley's Bancroft Library with collaborating exhibits celebrating the Mexican bicentennial. Both libraries are well known for their Mexican history collections. BY CYNTHIA HAVEN War has always been entertainment - a blood sport watched by civilians from hilltops and parapets. Mexico's long battle for freedom was no different from many others - except for the camera. That's why the new Cecil H. Green Library exhibit opening today, Celebrating Mexico: The Grito de Dolores and the Mexican Revolution, includes a photo of a little girl, perhaps 8 years old, wearing a bandolier and carrying a rifle almost as tall as she is. Some might call her plucky.