Revolution Day was on Thursday. As with all things annual and important, San Miguel de Allende celebrated with a parade.

Now, you would think that a parade that celebrates the Revolution of 1910, which finally freed Mexico from the oppressive rule of Porfirio Diaz, would be thick with militarism — squads of soldiers, combatants in arms, cannons, tanks, uniformly dressed squads marching in precision to martial cadences.

But it wasn’t.