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Mexico Independence Day

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All photos © Reena Rose Sibayan / The Home News-Tribune

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ, SEPTEMBER 12, 2004 -- Hundreds of Mexican-Americans gathered for a parade

and festival in celebration of La Dia Independencia de Mexico (Mexican Independence Day)

at Joyce Kilmer Park. Here, La Guelaguetza members Cruz Lazo, Sandra

Campos, and Jesus Sanchez wait to perform.

Monica Gandarillas performs with the dance group Xochipilli.

Young dancers of the group Guelaguetza Mexicana watch

the program from inside a parade float.

Phillip Aparicio, 12, behind the steering wheel, takes his friends for a ride on a

vehicle made by his father, Felipe Aparicio, that uses four people to pedal.